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Sinan Chu

Phone: +33 0695209157 - chusinan.90220@gmail.com

Sinan Chu is a research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany. He obtained his PhD from Syracuse University. His main research interests include contemporary Chinese politics (in particular ethnic politics) and non-Western perspectives of international relations. He is the principal investigator of the DFG project “Intellectual Contestation over China’s Multiethnic Regime” (2025-2027) and the editor-in-chief of Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.

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  • Teaching

    • "Minority Policy and National Identity in China," Syracuse University, BA
    • "Nationalism in Emerging Powers: The Case of China and India," University of Hamburg, BA

  • Web

    https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/chu-sinan

  • Languages

    Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent), German (intermediate/B2), Italian (intermediate/B1)

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Main Publications

Sinan Chu. (2025) “Che cento fiori sboccino: il dibattito sulla politica etnica della Cina fra il 2004 e il 2015” [Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Revisiting China’s Ethnic Policy Debate, 2004-2015]. In: Marco Fumian (ed.) Leggere La Cina, Capire Il Mondo: Narrazioni dominanti e discorso critico in un’era di competizione [Reading China, Understanding the World: Dominant Narratives and Critical Discourse in an Age of Competition]. Mimesis: Milano; Udine, pp. 301-327.

Sinan Chu, Heike Holbig, Amrita Narlikar, & Johannes Plagemann. (2024) “In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity.” International Studies Quarterly, 68(2): sqae034. 

Sinan Chu. (2023) “Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 50(3): 700 –729. 

Sinan Chu. (2022) “Dissociation via Alternative Institutions: The Establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and US-China Conflict.” Historical Social Research – Historische Sozialforschung 47(2): 109-137. 

Sinan Chu. (2022) “Nichtwestliche Perspektiven in den Internationalen Beziehungen” [Non-Western Perspectives in International Relations]. In: Frank Sauer, Luba von Hauff, and Carlo Masala (eds.) Handbuch Internationale Beziehungen [Handbook of International Relations]. Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, pp. 263-285. 

Sinan Chu. (2022) “Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric Subject and the Paradox of Tianxia-Ism.” International Theory, 14(1): 57–87. 

Johannes Plagemann, Sreeradha Datta, & Sinan Chu. (2021) “The Paradox of Competing Connectivity Strategies in Asia.” Third World Quarterly, 42(10): 2265-2281

 

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