Language: Chinese, English, Kiswahili

Email: xiaoqj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Research Interests: African Party Politics, Political History of East Africa, Theories of Global Governance

Research Areas and Countries: East Africa, with a particular focus on Tanzania

• 2016–2023, Ph.D. in Political Science, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University

• 2012–2016, B.A. in Kiswahili Language and Literature, School of Asian and African Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University

• 2024–2025, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Dar es Salaam

• 2018, Intern, UNICEF Tanzania Country Office

• 2017–2018, Visiting Fellow, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

• 2017, Visiting Scholar, Institute of African Studies, Ghana University

• 2014–2015, Occasional Student, Institute of Kiswahili Studies, University of Dar es Salaam

• XIAO Qijia, “Intervention Perception, Governance Bargaining, and Response Strategy of Aid-Recipient Countries: Evidence from Public Health Governance in Uganda, South Africa, and Tanzania,” World Economics and Politics, No. 8, 2025, pp. 121–154.

• Alexander Makulilo and XIAO Qijia, “The Hybrid Regime in Tanzania: Historical Trajectory and Contemporary Controversies,” Area Studies, No. 1, 2024, pp. 34–65.

• XIAO Qijia and TANG Xiaoyang, “Political Rhetoric, Authority Competition and Regime Survival: COVID-19 Management and Party Politics in Tanzania,” The Journal of International Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, 2023, pp. 35–62.

• XIAO Qijia, “How China-Africa Infrastructure Cooperation is Achieved: A Case Study on Uganda’s Isimba Hydropower Project,” Area Observations, No. 1, 2022, pp. 44–57.

• XIAO Qijia, “From Maritime Dispute to Diplomatic Crisis: An Analysis of the Recent Diplomatic Dispute between Somalia and Kenya,” Area Observations, No. 1, 2021, pp. 19–30.

• XIAO Qijia, “COVID-19 in Africa: Development, Impacts and Responses,” Area Observations, No. 1, 2020, pp. 73–86.

• WEI Yuanyuan and XIAO Qijia, “Humanity Exchanges and Cooperation between China and East African Countries,” Asian and African Studies, No. 2, 2016, pp. 99–116.

• XIAO Qijia, “From A Priori Imagination to Language Practice: The Perception and Construction of ‘Swahili Society’,” in The Globe as the Field: A Ten-Year Tour of Area Studies at Tsinghua University, The Commercial Press, 2022, pp. 144–161.

• “Comparing Party System Institutionalization in Tanzania and Kenya since Independence,” Principal Investigator, supported by the National Social Science Fund of China.

• “General History of Africa (Multi-Volume Edition),” contributor to the Ancient History Volume, supported by the National Social Science Fund of China.

• “Encyclopedia of African History,” contributor responsible for Tanzania-related country entries, supported by the National Publication Foundation.