The Qiang are one of China’s 55 officially recognized minority groups and represent one of the country’s oldest ethnoracial identities. Professor Yanshuo Zhang of Pomona College is investigating how this Himalayan group carves out “creative belonging” through cultural practices within a globalizing China.

Spanning literature, visual culture, and anthropology, this talk proposes a new scholarly paradigm for incorporating the Asia-Pacific into global studies of race and identity, drawing on her new book, “Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China.”

Speaker:

• Yanshuo Zhang, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures Chinese History, Pomona College

Moderator:

• Ping Zhu, Professor of Literature, UC San Diego

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This public lecture is organized by the 21st Century China Center (21CCC) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. For more information about this and other 21CCC events, please visit china.ucsd.edu.