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Barry Victor Sautman (born July 11, 1949) is a professor emeritus with the Division of Social Science at the
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. He holds both Canadian and American nationalities and he speaks both English and Cantonese A political scientist and lawyer by training who primarily teaches
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, he has conducted research about ethnic politics and nationalism in China, as well as China–Africa relations, in cooperation with anthropologist Yan Hairong in the latter field.


Graduate education

*1979: Master of Library Sciences,
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(UCLA) *1982: Juris Doctor in Law, University of California, Los Angeles (1981-82 at
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) *1985: Legum Magister in Law,
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*1990: Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science,
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, New YorkCurriculum Vitae (25 October 2008)
/ref> The title of his Ph.D. thesis is ''Retreat from Revolution. Why Communist Systems Deradicalize''.


Work experience

From 1983 to 1985, he was a law clerk and from 1985 to 1991, an attorney. From fall 1990 to spring 1991, he was an adjunct assistant professor at California State University, Northridge, teaching courses in US politics. In 1991–1992, he was a visiting assistant professor in
comparative politics Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the ''comparative method'' or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relatin ...
at the
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- Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, in
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, China. He taught courses in comparative politics; politics, law & society; political development; and US-China relations. From 1993 to 2000, he was an assistant professor in the Division of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, then from 2000 to 2008, an associate professor at the same university. In 2002–2003, he was also a visiting fellow in the Department of East Asian Studies at
Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
. He taught undergraduate courses in international law; politics, law & society; China-US relations; political development; and comparative politics; and also graduate courses in nationalism, ethnicity, and US hegemony.


Fields of research

His areas of research have been Communist and post-Communist systems; Chinese politics (especially ethnic politics); the political economic and legal aspects of the Tibet and
Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
issues; China-Africa links; the supposed strategic rivalry between the US and China in Africa; and international law (especially
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).


Expertise

His opinions and comments as an expert have been sought by media such as CNN, ''USA TODAY'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Manila Times'', ''Digital Journal'', the AFP press agency and various web sites. He was interviewed by
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and ''Voice of America News'' and took part in the
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program ''Today''. Australian sinologist
Colin Mackerras Colin Patrick Mackerras (; born 26 August 1939 Sydney, Australia) is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture. He has published on Chinese drama, national minorities of China, Aus ...
, an emeritus professor at
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, sees Barry Sautman as "probably the main contributor to Tibet studies in Hong Kong's universities, at least in English." His research focuses on contemporary Tibet and uses history to shed light on it. As a scholar, he is tremendously productive. Although he does not speak Tibetan and is not a specialist of
Tibetan culture Tibet developed a distinct culture due to its geographic and climatic conditions. While influenced by neighboring cultures from China, India, and Nepal, the Himalayas, Himalayan region's remoteness and inaccessibility have preserved distinc ...
, he "balances this lack with profound understanding of world history and international law." He views law and political science as his main areas of expertise. His stand on Tibet-related issues is akin to that of China, whose historical and legal claims to Tibet he supports. As this is not a fashionable stand in Western countries, "he has become a controversial figure." On the other hand, "because he is so well-informed and his research is so thorough," he is often asked to put across pro-Chinese positions in venues dealing with Tibet.


Reception

On account of his refutation of the claim of a physical and cultural
genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Lat ...
in Tibet, his underlining of the various benefits, rights, and material gains Tibetans have reaped from the region's modernization, and his indictment of what he calls "ethnonationalism" on the part of exile Tibetans,Dina Duck
Tibet under Chinese Rule
''Human Rights and Human Welfare'', pp. 17-28, more specially p. 25.
Barry Sautman has drawn criticism from writers supportive of an independent or free Tibet such as Jamyang Norbu and
Elliot Sperling Elliot Sperling (January 4, 1951 – January 29, 2017) was one of the world's leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan- Chinese relations, and a MacArthur Fellow. He spent most of his scholarly career as an associate professor at Indiana Universi ...
. Jamyang Norbu called Sautman a "running-dog propagandist" in 2008 and accused him of selectively using of dubious facts and figures, skillfully applying "academic gobbledygook", and jumping to conclusions without citing evidence. Sautman responded to Norbu's criticism in an article in ''
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'', stating "Being attacked by Jamyang Norbu is like being criticized by
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." Australian sinologist
Colin Mackerras Colin Patrick Mackerras (; born 26 August 1939 Sydney, Australia) is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture. He has published on Chinese drama, national minorities of China, Aus ...
sees Barry Sautman as the main contributor to Tibet studies in Hong Kong's universities. He added that Sautman has become a controversial figure because his stand on Tibet is not fashionable in the West but he is also "so well-informed and his research is so thorough,"
Colin Mackerras Colin Patrick Mackerras (; born 26 August 1939 Sydney, Australia) is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture. He has published on Chinese drama, national minorities of China, Aus ...

''Tibet studies in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore''
in ''Asian Ethnicity'', Vol. 12, Issue 3, 2011, Special Issue: Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective, pp. 265-283, downloadable from the website of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, 37 p., see pp. 14-17.


Publications

Barry Sautman has published articles and studies in peer-reviewed journals specializing in law: ''
Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal The ''Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal'' is an American law journal which publishes articles in the field of labor and employment law. The journal was founded as the ''Hofstra Labor Law Journal'' in 1982. It publishes articles on labor l ...
'', ''
Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal The ''Washington International Law Journal'' is a triannual law review published by the University of Washington School of Law.
'', '' Texas International Law Journal'', '' Chinese Journal of International Law'', ''Stanford Journal of International Law'', ''Rutgers Race and Law Review''; economic and social policies: ''
Pacific Affairs ''Pacific Affairs'' (''PA'') is a Canadian peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes academic research on contemporary political, economic, and social issues in Asia and the Pacific. The journal was founded in 1926 as the newsletter for th ...
'', '' Problems of Post-Communism''; history: ''
Current History ''Current History'' is the oldest extant United States-based publication devoted exclusively to contemporary world affairs. The magazine was founded in 1914 by George Washington Ochs Oakes, brother of ''The New York Times'' publisher Adolph Ochs ...
''; international relations: ''World Affairs''; Asia: ''
The Journal of Asian Studies ''The Journal of Asian Studies'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Asian Studies, covering Asian studies, ranging from history, the arts, social sciences, to phil ...
'', '' The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus'', and especially '' China Information'', ''
The China Quarterly ''The China Quarterly'' (CQ) is a British double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1960 on contemporary China and Taiwan. It is considered the most important research journal about China in the world and is published by the Cam ...
'', '' Modern China''; Africa: '' African Studies Review'', ''
African and Asian Studies ''African and Asian Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on Africa and Asia. It covers aspects of anthropology, sociology, history, political science and related social sciences about African and Asian societies and cul ...
'', ''South African Labour Bulletin''. He co-authored a number of articles with Irene Eng, Baogang He, Yan Hairong, Kenneth King, as well as monographs with Shiu-hing Lo, Ellen Kneehans. He co-edited a collective book with June Teufel Dreyer. He has also contributed opinion articles to newspapers the '' South China Morning Post'' in Hong Kong) and ''
The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
''.


Journal articles

* 1985
The meaning of "Well-Founded Fear of Persecution" in United States Asylum Law and in International Law
''Fordham International Law Journal'', Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 483–539 * 1997. The Tibet Question: Meeting the Bottom Lines, in ''Problems of Post-Communism'', Vol. 44, Issue 3, pp. 15–24 * 1998. Preferential Policies for Ethnic Minorities in China: The Case of Xinjiang, in ''Nationalism and Ethnic Politics'' (Special Issue: Nationalism and Ethnoregional Identities in China), Vol. 4, Issue 1-2, 1998, pp. 86–118 * 1998
Affirmative Action, Ethnic Minorities and China’s Universities
in ''Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal'', University of Washington, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 1998, pp. 77–86 * 1999
Ethnic Law and Minority Rights in China: Progress and Constraints
in ''Law & Policy'', Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 283–314, July 1999 * 2000. Is Xinjiang an Internal Colony?, in ''Inner Asia'', Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 239–271 * 2000. Association, Federation and 'Genuine' Autonomy: the Dalai Lama's Proposals and Tibet Independence, in ''China Information'', Vol. 14, pp. 31–91 * 2001. Is Tibet China’s Colony? The Claim of Demographic Catastrophe, in ''Columbia Journal of Asian Law'', Vol. 15, Issue 1 (Fall), pp. 81–131 * 2001. Tibet: Myths and Realities, in ''Current History. A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs'', September 2001, Vol. 100, Issue 647, pp. 278–283 * 2003
"Cultural Genocide" and Tibet
in ''Texas International Law Journal'', Vol. 38, Issue 2, pp. 173–246 * 2005. China's Vulnerability to Ethnic Minority Separatism in Tibet, in ''Asian Affairs: an American Review'', Vol. 31, Issue 2, pp. 87–118 * 2006
Colonialism, Genocide and Tibet
in ''Asian Ethnicity'', Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 243–265 * 2007. (with Yan Hairong)
Friends and Interests: China's Distinctive Links with Africa
in ''African Studies Review'', vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 75–114 * 2008. (with Yan Hairong), Fu Manchu in Africa: the Distorted Portrayal of China's Presence in the Continent, in ''South African Labour Bulletin'', November, Vol. 31, Issue 5, pp. 34–38 * 2008
Barry Sautman's response to Jamyang Norbu's opinion piece 'Running-Dog Propagandists'
''Phayul.com'', August 4 * 2008
Protests in Tibet and Separatism. The Olympics and Beyond (Expanded version)
in ''China Left Review'', Issue 1 * 2008. (with Kenneth King
Steven Spielberg, China and Darfur
in ''China Left Review'', Issue 1 * 2010
"Vegetarian Between Meals". The Dalai Lama, War and Violence
in ''Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique'', Vol. 18, Issue 1, pp. 89–143 * 2010. Tibet’s Putative Statehood and International Law, in ''Chinese Journal of International Law'', Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 127–142 * 2011. (with Yan Hairong
Gilded Outside, Shoddy Within : The Human Rights Watch report on Chinese copper mining in Zambia
in ''The Asia-Pacific Journal : Japan Focus'', Vol. 9, Issue 52, No 1, December 26
translation into French
under the title "Néocolonialisme ou racisme : critiques d'une entreprise minière", in ''Société de stratégie'', May 2012) * 2011. (with Yan Hairong) The ‘Right Dissident’: Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel Peace Prize, in ''Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique'', Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 581–613 * 2012
Tibet’s Suicidal Politics
in ''East Asia Forum'', March 21 * 2012. (with Yan Hairong) Chasing Ghosts: Rumors and Representations of the Export of Chinese Prison Labour to Developing Countries, in ''China Quarterly'', No 210 (June), pp. 398–418 ( Abridged Chinese version, 2013 社会观察 ; full Chinese version in 李安山 & 刘海方, 中国非洲研究评论 2012 (北京: 社科文献出版社, 2013) * 2013
Ethnic Policies: China vs US and India
''The Adelaide Review'', September 10


Book chapters

* 1995. Theories of East Asian Intellectual and Behavioral Superiority and the "Clash of Civilizations", in ''Racial Identities in East Asia'', Barry Sautman Ed., Hong Kong: Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, pp. 58–121 * 1997
Myths of Descent, Racial Nationalism and Ethnic Minorities in the People's Republic of China
in Frank Dikötter (ed.), ''The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives'', University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 75–95, . * 1999. Year of the Yak: the Tibet Question in Contemporary US-China Relations, in ''The Outlook for U.S.-China Relations Following the 1997-1998 Summits: Chinese and American Perspectives on Security, Trade, and Cultural Exchange'', Edited by Peter H. Koehn, Joseph Y.S. Cheng, Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 403 p., pp. 181–205 * 1999. Expanding Access to Higher Education for China's National Minorities: Policies of Preferential Admission, in ''China's National Minority Education Culture, Schooling, and Development'', Edited by Gerard A. Postiglione, Falmer Press, New York, pp. 173–210 * 2000
Legal Reforms and Minority Rights in China
in ''Handbook of Global Legal Policy'' (Stuart Nagel ed.), CRC Press, 560 p., pp. 71–102 * 2004. Hong Kong as a Semi-Ethnocracy: 'Race,' Migration, and Citizenship in a Globalized Region, in Agnes Ku & Pun Ngai (eds.), ''Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City'', Routledge, New York, pp. 115–138 * 2005-2006. wit
Baogang He
, The Politics of the Dalai Lama's New Initiative for Autonomy, in ''Pacific Affairs'', Vol. 78, Issue 4 (Winter 2005-2006), pp. 601–629 - aussi sous le titre Dalai Lama's New Initiative for Autonomy, in Paula Banerjee and Samir Kumar Das (eds.), ''Autonomy: Beyond Kant and Hermeneutics'', Anthem Press, London, 2007, pp. 235–260. * 2006. Introduction: Cultural Genocide in International Context an
Tibet and the (Mis-) Representation of Cultural Genocide
in Barry Sautman (ed.), ''Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries'',
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, New York, 279 p., pp. 1–37 and 165-279, * 2006. Introduction: the Tibet Question in Contemporary Perspective (with Yan Hairong) and 'Demographic Annihilation' and Tibet, in Barry Sautman & June Teufel Dreyer (eds.), ''Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region'', ME Sharpe, Armonk, pp. 3–22, pp. 230–257, * 2012. Ethnicity in China: Politics, Policies and Consequences, in ''Handbook of Contemporary China'', Edited by William S Tay, Alvin Y. So, World Scientific, New Jersey ; Hong Kong


Op-ed pieces

* 2010
The Tibetan impasse
in ''South China Morning Post'' ong Kong 11 September 2010 * 2010 (with Yan Hairong
Medal Contention
in ''South China Morning Post'' ong Kong 12 October 2010 * 2010 (with Yan Hairong)
Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for?
in ''The Guardian'' (UK), December 15, 2010


Editorship

* 1995. ''Racial Identities in East Asia'', edited by Barry Sautman, Hong Kong: Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (proceedings of the international conference held in Hong-Kong on November 25 and 26, 1994) * 2006. ''Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries'', edited by Barry Sautman,
Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden. Its programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. It maintains off ...
, New York, * 2006. ''Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region'', edited by Barry Sautman & June Teufel Dreyer, ME Sharpe, Armonk


Monographs

* 1990. ''Retreat from Revolution. Why Communist Systems Deradicalize'', University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990, 669 p. * 1995. (with Shiu-hing Lo),
The Tibet Question and the Hong Kong Experience
', Maryland Occasional Papers/Reprints Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, No. 2 - 1995 (127), 82 p., * 2002. (with Ellen Kneehans), ''The Politics of Racial Discrimination in Hong Kong'', Maryland Monograph Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, No. 2-2002 (169), 83 p., * 2006. (with Yan Hairong), ''East Mountain Tiger, West Mountain Tiger: China, Africa, the West, and 'Colonialism' in Africa'', Maryland Monograph Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, No. 3-2006 (186), 77 p., * 2009.
'All that Glitters is Not Gold': Tibet as a Pseudo-State
'', Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, No 3-2009, 86 p., * 2011. (with Li Ying
''Public Diplomacy from Below: the 2008 'Pro-China' Demonstrations in Europe and North America''
University of Southern California Annenberg School Center on Public Diplomacy Series, Paper No 11, * 2012. (with Yan Hairong), ''The Chinese are the Worst?: Human Rights and Labor Practices in Zambian Mining'', Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, 2012, 100 p.,


Other academic services

* Founder of the journal ''Asian Ethnicity'' and member of its Board of Editors * Author of reviews in ''China Quarterly'', ''China Journal'', ''Pacific Affairs'', ''Asian Ethnicity'', ''East Asia''


Lectures

In 2013, professor Sautman was the speaker at the Adelaide Confucius Institute's annual Public Lecture.Bethany Nolan, 2013 Annual Lecture: Does China Have Better Ethnic Policies than USA and India?, ''Confucius Institute News'', 27 September 2013.


Reviews of the author's contributions

* In ''China Journal'', July 2006, Issue 56, p. 213, review by Mark Stevenson of ''Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region'' * In ''China Review International'', Spring 2007, Vol. 14, Issue 1, p. 203, review by Ronald Schwartz of ''Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region''


References


External links


Interview of Barry Sautman about the capture of chinese workers by Sudanese rebels on RFI in English in January 2012
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