Barry SAUTMAN (PhD, Columbia University, 1990) Associate Professor of Social Science Office: Room 3378, Academic Building Tel: (852) 2358-7821 Email: sobarrys@ust.hk Vitae: PDF

Research Interests

• Communist and post Communist Systems
• Chinese Politics (especially Ethnic Politics)
• China-Africa Relations
• China-US Relations
• International Law (especially Human Rights)

Representative Publications

1. 2007. "East Mountain Tiger, West Mountain Tiger: China, Africa, the West and "Colonialism" [co-authored with Yan Hairong], monograph in Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law), no. 186.
2. 2007 "Friends and Interests: China's Distinctive Links with Africa" [co-authored with Yan Hairong], African Studies Review 50:3 [also in Chinese in 西亞非研究 (West Asia & Africa) 2007:4].
3. 2007 "Fu Manchu in Africa: the Distorted Portrayal of China's Presence in the Continent" [co-authored with Yan Hairong], South African Labour Bulletin, November.
4. 2006 "Honour and Shame? China's Africa Ties in Comparative Perspective" [co-authored with Yan Hairong], in Leni Wild and David Mepham (eds.), The New Sinosphere: China in Africa (London: Institute of Public Policy Research):54-61.
5. 2006 "Colonialism, Genocide and Tibet," Asian Ethnicity 7:3: 243-265.
6. 2006 "Introduction" and "Tibet and the (Mis-) Representation of Cultural Genocide," in Barry Sautman (ed.), Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan): 1-37, 165-279.
7. 2006 "Introduction" [co-authored with June Dreyer] and "'Demographic Annihilation' and Tibet," in Barry Sautman & June Dreyer (eds.), Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region (Armonk: ME Sharpe): 3-22, 230-257.
8. 2005-2006 "The Politics of the Dalai Lama's New Initiative for Autonomy" [co-authored with He Baogang], Pacific Affairs 78:4:601-629.
9. 2005. "China's Vulnerability to Ethnic Minority Separatism in Tibet," Asian Affairs: an American Review 31:2:87-118
10. 2004. "Hong Kong as a Semi-Ethnocracy: 'Race,' Migration, and Citizenship in a a Globalized Region," in Agnes Ku & Pun Ngai (eds.), Re-making Citizenship in Hong Kong (New York: Routledge):115-138
    

Forthcoming / Work In Progress

• "Forest for the Trees: Trade, Investment and the China-in-Africa Discourse" [co-authored with Yan Hairong], forthcoming in Pacific Affairs 81:1 (spring).
• Relations in Blood: China's 'Racial' Nationalism (Seattle: University of Washington Press).
• "Demographic Aggression' and Tibet." to be revised and resubmitted to Journal of Asian Studies in March 2008, 66 pp.
• "The New Tibetan Middle Classes": first draft completed; to be submitted to a journal in April, 2008, 38 pp.
  

Professional Services

• Member editorial board, Asian Ethnicity
• Ad hoc reviewer for China Quarterly, China Journal, Pacific Affairs, Asian Ethnicity, East Asia and other journals.

Courses Taught

• SOSC 127: International Law
• SOSC 134: China-US Relations
• SOSC 152: Comparative Politics
• SOSC 300M: Nationalism
• SOSC 300N: Ethnicity: Social Science Perspectives
• SOSC 301D: US Hegemony and China
• SOSC 553: Nationalism: Social Science Perspectives
• SOSC 601O: Ethnicity: Social Science Perspectives
• SOSC 602O: US Hegemony and China