Speaker:

Li Xiaofeng is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Literature and Languages at Xinjiang University in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. Prof. Li specializes in Chinese art, poetics, and aesthetic as well as Chinese ethnic and cultural studies. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ancient Chinese literary theory and literary history from Tang to Qing dynasty, and has extensive experience in developing curricula on Chinese ancient art, poetics and ethnic aesthetic culture, including Uyghur aesthetic culture. In 2010 she published a report "On the Uyghur Ethnic Aesthetic Culture of Erdaoqiao Landscape" and is currently working on research project titled, "The Mirror Image of Xinjiang Culture under Globalization: Erdaoqiao and the Other" supported in part with funding from the China Scholarship Council.

The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies
presents
 
China's Xinjiang Policy: Assessing International Responses

Li Xiaofeng
 Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and Languages, Xinjiang University
 Orfalea Center Visiting Research Scholar

WHEN: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 -- 12:00 PM

WHERE: Orfalea Center Seminar Room -- 1005 Robertson Gym
(detached office wing in front of Ocean Road entrance, directly across the street from the SSMS building)
 
ABSTRACT
The westernmost province of China, Xinjiang, is an ethnically and religiously diverse region and home to the majority of the country's Muslim population. China's Xinjiang policy is reported in numerous versions both in the Chinese homeland and overseas, and although Chinese online government censors filter many news and social websites, individuals are still able to access internet proxies that allow them to surf freely. This talk focuses on the most influential international news media such as Voice of America, CNN, The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, South China Post, Yazhou Zhoukan, Mingpao, and other as they report on China's Xinjiang policy. The hope is to re-evaluate their contributions to Chinese development and illuminate some of the limits of their own ideologies.