Binxin Zhang obtained her PhD in political science from Sciences Po Paris in 2024. Her dissertation “Meet the Other and (Re)define the Self: Africans in China and Chinese Imaginings of Race, Nation and World Order” explores the construction of Chinese self-images through an examination of Chinese perceptions of, discourses on, and interactions with Africans in China.

Previously, Binxin Zhang worked as Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Xiamen University Law School and as Legal Officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross Regional Delegation for East Asia. She has been visiting scholar at National Taiwan University, the Australian National University and Sciences Po (Paris) Law School.

Binxin Zhang has contributed her expertise to international expert groups such as the Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Operations and the International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons. She also holds a PhD in international law from Renmin University of China.

Chinese nationalism; China-Africa relations; Race and international law

Meet the Other and (Re)define the Self: Africans in China and Chinese Imaginings of Race, Nation and World Order, supervised by Françoise Mengin

2025, Droit dans les relations internationales, ISIT (Institut de Management et de Communication Interculturels), M1

2021, Introduction to political science (seminar), Sciences Po Nancy, L1

2013-2020, Xiamen University Law School, Bachelor and Master Levels :
• Public International Law
• International Humanitarian Law
• International Criminal Law
• Sociology of International Law
• International Dispute Settlement