Barry Sautman

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Barry Victor Sautman

(1949-07-11) July 11, 1949 (age 75) [1] [2]
Education University of California, Los Angeles (M.L.S., J.D.)
New York University (L.L.M.)
Columbia University (PhD)
Occupation(s)professor, lawyer
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Retreat from Revolution. Why Communist Systems Deradicalize  (1990)

Barry Victor Sautman (born July 11, 1949) is a professor emeritus [3] with the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. [4] He holds both Canadian and American nationalities [5] and he speaks both English and Cantonese. [6]

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A political scientist and lawyer by training who primarily teaches international law, [7] he has conducted research about ethnic politics and nationalism in China, as well as China–Africa relations. [8]

Graduate education

Work experience

From 1983 to 1985, he was a law clerk and from 1985 to 1991, an attorney. [9]

From fall 1990 to spring 1991, he was an adjunct assistant professor at California State University, Northridge, teaching courses in US politics. [9]

In 1991–1992, he was a visiting assistant professor in comparative politics at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, in Nanjing, China. He taught courses in comparative politics; politics, law & society; political development; and US-China relations. [9]

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.

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. [9]

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 issues; China-Africa links; the supposed strategic rivalry between the US and China in Africa; and international law (especially human rights). [9] [11]

Reception

On account of his rejection of the claim of a physical and cultural genocide 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, [12] Sautman has drawn criticism from writers supportive of an independent or free Tibet such as Jamyang Norbu [13] and Elliot Sperling. [14] Jamyang Norbu called Sautman a "running-dog propagandist" in 2008 and accused him of selectively using dubious facts and figures, skillfully applying "academic gobbledygook", and jumping to conclusions without citing evidence. [15] [16] Sautman responded to Norbu's criticism in an article in Phayul.com , stating "Being attacked by Jamyang Norbu is like being criticized by John Bolton." [17]

Australian sinologist Colin Mackerras 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". [18]

Publications

Journal articles

Book chapters

Editorship

Monographs

Other academic services

Lectures

In 2013, professor Sautman was the speaker at the Adelaide Confucius Institute's annual Public Lecture. [19]

Reviews of the author's contributions

Related Research Articles

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References

  1. The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Volume 1; Volumes 3-17 (1991)
  2. United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (California, 1991-2007)
  3. Electronic newsletter published online by the Office of the Executive Vice-President & Provost for the announcement of faculty substantiations and promotions, academic administrative appointments effective 1 July 2014, Fall Issue, 2014: "Promotion. The following faculty members have been promoted to Professor. School of Humanities and Social Science: Barry V SAUTMAN, SOSC - Michelle O Y YIK, SOSC."
  4. On January 31, 2013, Professor Sautman was among the awardees at the fourth Long Service Award Presentation Ceremony honoring faculty and staff members who have served the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) for 20 years. See Long Service Award for Prof. Sautman Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine .
  5. Colin Mackerras (2011). "Tibet studies in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore" (PDF). Asian Ethnicity . Griffith University: 14–17: "A Canadian and American by nationality.".
  6. "Barry Sautman". china-africa.ssrc.org. n.d. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  7. The author's background on the CHINA-AFRICA Knowledge Project site: "Barry Sautman is a political scientist (PhD Columbia University) and lawyer (JD UCLA, LLM NYU) who primarily teaches international law."
  8. The author's background on the site of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, op. cit.: "His research concerns ethnic politics and nationalism in China, as well as China–Africa relations."
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Curriculum Vitae (25 October 2008)
  10. Tapp, Nicholas (2001). The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary. Boston, Leiden: Brill Publishers. p. 490. ISBN   0-391-04187-8.
  11. The author's background on the CHINA-AFRICA Knowledge Project site.
  12. Dina Duck, Tibet under Chinese Rule, Human Rights and Human Welfare, pp. 17-28, more specially p. 25.
  13. Jamyang Norbu, A Losar gift for rangzen activists Archived November 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , Phayul.com, February 26, 2009.
  14. Elliot Sperling, The History Boy Archived 2010-10-24 at the Wayback Machine , Rangzen Alliance, June 24, 2010.
  15. Jamyang Norbu (July 2008). "Running-Dog Propagandists". Phayul.com . Archived from the original on 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  16. Vanessa Frangville. Tibet in Debate: Narrative Construction and Misrepresentations in Seven Years in Tibet and Red River Valley. Transtext(e)s Transcultures. 2009(5), document 6, note 4
  17. "Barry Sautman's response to Jamyang Norbu's opinion piece "Running-Dog Propagandists"". Phayul.com . 4 August 2008. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014.
  18. Colin Mackerras, 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.
  19. Bethany Nolan, 2013 Annual Lecture: Does China Have Better Ethnic Policies than USA and India?, Confucius Institute News, 27 September 2013.