Education: Doctoral Degree

Languages: Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Mauritian Creole, Malagasy

Email: xiong-xh@tsinghua.edu.cn

Research Countries/Regions: Madagascar Mauritius

Research Interests: Human Geography, Development Studies

• B.A. in French Language and Literature, Beijing International Studies University

• M.A. in Applied Linguistics (French), China Foreign Affairs University

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Tsinghua University

• 2007-2008 Exchange Student, Université de Lumières Lyon II
  

• 2015-2016 Visiting Student, Center for African Studies, UC Berkeley

• 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, Madagascar Institute of Political Studies

• 2017-2018 Visiting Scholar, University of Toamasina

• 2009-2011 Madagascar subsidiary of China Overseas Engineering Group Co. Ltd., Translator, Assistant manager

• 2012.2-2012.3 Short mission in Guinea for China Railway Construction Co. Ltd.

• 2021- Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University, Assistant Professor

• Xiong Xinghan, Becoming an Inland Island: The Developmental Dilemma of Madagascar from a Perspective of Evolutionary Economic Geography, China Social Sciences Press, April 2024

• Gao Liangmin, Li Yuqing, Xiong Xinghan, Li Yin, Zheng Nan, The Global as Field Site: 10 Years of Area Studies at Tsinghua University, Commercial Press, May 2022

• Zhang Jing, Xiong Xinghan, Worldly Affairs, Social Tact and the Field: Selected Writings of Fieldwork of the Institute for International and Area Studies at Tsinghua University, Commercial Press, October 2023

• Zhang Jing, Yang Guang, Liu Lanyu, Xiong Xinghan, Nations and Regions: Dynamic Connections – Selected Collections of the Second Tsinghua Area Studies Forum, Commercial Press, December 2023

• Xiong Xinghan, Status quo of Madagascar and an outlook of upcoming Sino-Malgache relationship, Fazhan Zhongguo yu Feizhou Xinxing Quanmian Hezuo Guanxi,（2014）

• Tang Xiaoyang, Xiong Xinghan, China’s Oversea Investment and Investment Supervision：A Case Study of Chinese Investment in Africa, Wai Jiao Ping Lun, No.3, 2015

• Xiong Xinghan, Why is Chinese Investment Controversial in Madagascar: Analysis of an Afrobarometer Survey, Identity, Culture and Politics, 2016, Volume17 N2

• Xiong Xinghan，Aapravasi Ghat in Mauritius，China Investment，March, 2019 No. 5-6

• Xiong Xinghan, What Influence French Factors Had on Madagascar’s Economic and Politic Security – A perspective of Colonial History, Article submitted for the 2015 Key Projects of National Social Science Fund of China: The Research of the Risk and its Management for China’s Going Global Strategy, Project Number: 15AGJ007

• Xiong Xinghan, Seeing International Organization of Francophonie through the Historical Perspective of Development Model, Article submitted for the 2015 Key Projects of National Social Science Fund of China: The Research of the Risk and its Management for China’s Going Global Strategy, Project Number: 15AGJ007

• Xiong Xinghan, Not a Medicine from God: Analysis and Remarks on the Transient Success of Malagasy COVID Organics, Area Observation, 2020, Issue 2, http://iias.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/area-observation/2020-issue-2/

• Xiong Xinghan, The Logic of Capital City Location Choice in Post-Colonial African Coastal States -Comparative Analysis Based on the Case of Madagascar, Area Observation, 2021, Issue 3, http://iias.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/area-observation/2021-issue-3/

• Xiong Xinghan, Are All Tropical Islands Touristic Paradise? -Island Tourism in Madagascar through the Perspective of Modernity, Area Observation, 2021, Issue 4, http://iias.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/area-observation/2021-issue-4/

• Xiong Xinghan, When Talking About China's Development, What Are People in Madagascar Discussing? in The Global as Field Site: 10 Years of Area Studies at Tsinghua University, Commercial Press, May 2022, pp. 361-380

• Wu Xiao'an, Wang Tingyi, Xiong Xinghan, Introduction to Between Nation-States and Areas: Discussing the Boom in China's Area Studies and its Development as a Discipline, in Area Studies, Issue 1, Commercial Press, November 2022, pp. 209-235

• Deen Sharp, translated by Xiong Xinghan, Difference as Practice: Diffracting Geography and the Area Studies Turn, in Area Studies, Issue 2, Commercial Press, July 2023, pp. 129-158

• Xiong Xinghan, Field Research Ethics in Developing Countries: Meaning, Complexity, and Response to Dilemmas, in Tsinghua Journal of Field Research, Issue 1, Commercial Press, October 2023, pp. 127-155

• Xiong Xinghan, Basketball Tales from France, the United States, and Madagascar, in Worldly Affairs, Social Tact and the Field: Selected Writings of Fieldwork of the Institute for International and Area Studies at Tsinghua University, Commercial Press, October 2023, pp. 39-47

• Xiong Xinghan, Slave Trade in Madagascar: The Rise of a Political Regime and the Evolution of its Human Geographical Structure, in Nations and Regions: Dynamic Connections – Selected Collections of the Second Tsinghua Area Studies Forum, Commercial Press, December 2023, pp. 61-98

• Xiong Xinghan, Have there been major naval battles in the Indian Ocean? — Historical Reflections on the Naval Arms Race in the Indian Ocean, in Regional Observation, Issue 9, IIAS, June 2022

• Xiong Xinghan, Greeting Cards, Notebooks, and Reflections on Field Ethics, in Field Observation, Issue 5, IIAS, 2022, pp. 1-9

• Chinese Investment in Africa: Scope, Impact, and Initial Ideas for Engagement on Improving Environmental and Social Safeguards, Irene Yuan SUN, Tang Xiaoyang, Xiong Xinghan, Commissioned by African Development Bank, 2014

• 2015.11, UC Berkeley, Academic Panel on Chinese Investment in Africa: An Environmental Perspective

Presentation: “Environmental Protection Issues in Chinese CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Practice in Africa”

• 2016.12, University of Tananarive, Department of History

Presentation: Comparaison Historique: Chine et Madagascar vers la Fin du XIXème Siècle

• 2017.2, Institute for Political Studies of Madagascar, Forum of PhD Students

Presentation : Décentralisation au Défi de l’Ethnicité à Madagascar

• 2017.10, Zhejiang Normal University, Seminar of Chinese Anthropological Research on Africa: Tradition, Oversea and Practice,

Paper submitted and presented: From Globalization to Decentralization: Multidimensional Reflection on Export of Public Administration Mechanism – the Case of Madagascar

• 2018.9, University of Dar es Salaam, Africa-Asia ‘A New Axis of Knowledge' Second Edition, Panel: Reflections on Chineseness and Fieldwork in Africa,

Presentation: Malagasy and China without History -- A historical perspective of understanding what China means for Madagascar

• 2019.7, 1st Tsinghua Area Studies Forum: Innovating New Approaches to Common Challenges in Asia, Africa and Latin America,

Paper submitted and presented: Bringing Geography Back into the Explanation of Madagascar’s Underdevelopment

• 2019.12, Tsinghua University, The first Symposium of “History and Status quo of Local Social Science and Humanities Studies in Africa”,

Presentation: Brief Introduction to Social Science and Humanities Studies about Madagascar

• 2021.7, 2nd Tsinghua Area Studies Forum: Areas of the World and the World in Areas, Paper submitted and presented: Slave Trade in Madagascar: The Rise of a Political Regime and its Human Geographical Structure’s Evolution

• 2021.10, "Marginalization of Madagascar during the Age of Discovery: Discussing the Concept of Path Dependency in Evolutionary Economic Geography" at the annual conference of the Chinese African History Society held at Xiangtan University

• 2022.11, "Geographic Thoughts and their Influence on the Evolution of Madagascar’s Economic Geography" at the "International Symposium on Civilizations around the Indian Ocean" hosted by East China Normal University

• 2022.12, "An Interpretation and Reflection on South African Anthropologist Mafeje's Critique of Tribalism" at the "Southern Theory Research Forum" at Tsinghua University

• 2023.6, "Early Formation of a Landlocked Island: the Rise of Inland during the Period of Slave Trade in Madagascar" at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) held at the University of Cologne

• 2023.7, "The 'Authenticity' and 'Heritage' in Mauritian Identity" at the 2023 annual conference of the Chinese African History Society held at Yunnan University