Xiaoyu Lu
Xiaoyu Lu (Chinese: 吕晓宇) is a Chinese writer, international relations scholar, journalist and activist, who explores the themes of individuals and narratives in global conflicts and China's foreign policy. He has worked in a number of conflict cases, including Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela and Myanmar. He was a staff member at the United Nations Development Programme and now is an assistant professor in the School of International Studies at Peking University.
Biography
[edit]Xiaoyu Lu was born in Hubei, China. He received a MA (honours) in International Relations and Social Anthropology from University of St Andrews and MSc and DPhil in Politics at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He was the 2017 Dahrendorf Scholar at the European Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, supervised by Timothy Garton Ash. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. In 2021, he began to work in the School of International Studies, Peking University.[1] He is 2022-23 Berggruen China Center Fellow.[2]
Work
[edit]Lu's academic works are in the field of international relations. During his DPhil study, he worked at the United Nations Development Programme as a policy consultant and completed an ethnographic account of international institutions in China, which was reflected in his monograph: Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China: The Imperative to Narrate (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).[3] He drew on the issues of human rights, rule of law and development cooperation in the context of China and the world. His travel and later research focus on international conflicts and crises, with field trips to Myanmar, Colombia, Venezuela and Syria, and featured non-fictions covering these trips.[4][5]
In 2016, Lu participated as an observer in the Peruvian politician Alejandro Toledo's election campaign. He later recorded the experience in the non-fiction book Lima Dream: When a Chinese Wanders into an Election.[6]
During the COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2020, Lu was in his hometown Wuhan. His commentary Wuhan is not a City of Fear was published by The Guardian,[7] and his diaries were translated and partly published in the China Channel of Los Angeles Review of Books.[8][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ "吕晓宇". Peking University. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Xiaoyu Lu - People - Berggruen Institute". Berggruen Institute. 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ Lu, Xiaoyu (2021). Norms, storytelling and international institutions in China : the imperative to narrate. Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-030-56707-1. OCLC 1242789365.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "亚洲在仰光_澎湃号·湃客_澎湃新闻-The Paper". The Paper. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "他们在难民营写作". The Paper. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ Lu Xiaoyu [吕晓宇] (2021). 利马之梦: 晓宇的拉美笔记 [Lima zhi meng : Xiaoyu de la mei bi ji] (Di 1 ban ed.). Shanghai. ISBN 978-7-5321-8029-5. OCLC 1295393840.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Wuhan, my hometown, is not a city of fear | Xiaoyu Lu". the Guardian. 2020-01-31. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Another Day of Life in Wuhan". China Channel. 2020-02-01. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Tough quarantine measures have spread across China". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ Zand, Bernhard (2020-04-15). "Wuhan Awakes: A Visit to Coronavirus Ground Zero". Der Spiegel. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2022-10-02.