Lao She and SOAS Zhaoxia Pang and Ruth Herd share the story of Shu Qingchun (舒庆春) (1899-1966), also known by his pen name Lao She (老舍). Lao She is one of the most prominent figures in the history of modern Chinese literature. During his lifetime, he was acclaimed a “Master of Language” (yǔyán dàshī 语言大师) and his novels and plays gained world renown.
Hwanhee Bae Financialisation, Household Finance, Pension Systems, Mortgage, Insurance, Inequality, Class Consciousness, Class Reproduction.
Dr Zidane Meriboute Currently, Zidane holds the position of Senior Consultant within the ICRC Unit in charge of the contacts with the religious leaders in Africa.His research interests are: Islamism, Sufism and Evangelism in Africa; The nature of modern Islamic States.
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Yan-Han Wang Yan-Han Wang is a PhD Student in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Her research focuses on the resurgence of sex workers' rights movements in Taiwan, and the dialectic between the sex workers' rights activism and anti-pornography feminism in global human rights advocacy, with wider interests spanning gender and politics, law and society, and Taiwan Studies.
Clara Peter Clara is a PhD researcher at SOAS who studies the spatial and legal dimensions of city-led protection for forced migrants. Challenging state-centric accounts in legal studies and International Relations that portray subnational actors as peripheral or symbolic in lawmaking, the study analyses how São Paulo influenced the reformation of Brazil’s 2017 national Migration Law from the bottom up. Drawing on several years of humanitarian fieldwork in the areas of shelter and urban displacement, her research covers migration governance and municipal strategies for overcoming national political gridlocks.
Syed Talha Ahsan Talha Ahsan is a historian and podcaster on the lives of the Caliphs. He is currently a PhD researcher on Ḥanbalism at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics supervised by Prof. Hugh Kennedy.