Jie Wang

Jie Wang is a PhD candidate, Cambridge Trust scholar, and Trinity-MCSC scholar in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. With the Leiden-Orange Tulip Scholarship, she completed her MA in Modern Middle Eastern Studies (cum laude) at the Leiden University. She did her undergraduate studies in Arabic Language and Literature at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Jie’s research interests straddle modern and contemporary Sino-Arab relations (in particular transnational demographic movement and cultural exchanges), and Muslim cultures. She has been invited to present at the New England Translators Association 20th Annual Conference (Boston) and the conference “The Arab world and China: future prospects of relations with a rising power” organized by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (Doha).

Her academic publications include “Localizing Chinese migrants in Africa: a study of the Chinese in Libya before the civil war” in China Information, “Sojourner tongues: Language practices among the Chinese of Cairo” in Multilingualism in the Chinese diaspora worldwide: transnational connections and local social realities, “Islamist forces, political reordering of Libya and exiles in Cairo” in Global Politics Review, “Soft power from Ningxia to Cairo: Chinese-to-Arabic translation of modern and contemporary literature” in Translation Studies, and “Sino-Libyan relations in the post-Jamahiriya era: the logic of exploring overseas market(s)” (in Arabic) in The Arab and China: future prospects of relations with a rising power.