2025

Peiyu Yang

  • Assistant Professor
  • George Mason University
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Program

Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long-Term

Project

State and Popular Voices in China-Arab Solidarity Building, from 1949 to 1969: A Digital Humanities Project

Department

Modern and Classical Languages

Abstract

The relationship between China and the Arab world today owes much to exchanges in the 1950s and 1960s. This research on Arab-China solidarity-building in this era uses a bilateral approach to analyze multilingual sources produced in both China and the Arab world, focusing on how state-sponsored and unofficial texts in Arabic, Chinese, and European languages framed the Sino-Arab relationship. It illustrates how Chinese and Arab actors built solidarity through shared anti-imperialist rhetoric and ideology. This project constructs an ARCGIS digital story map from the archival corpus, a tool that makes intertextual connections visible, and includes a book chapter focused on insights gained from the story map.