Kevin Carrico is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Monash University. His research examines nationalism and racial constructions in China and Hong Kong. He is the translator of Tsering Woeser’s Tibet on Fire and the author of The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today. He was formerly a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Macquarie University.
Last Updated: March 25, 2019
Conversation
05.14.19
Islamophobia in China
Roughly 20 million Muslims live in China today; many of them live in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where the government is incarcerating an estimated one million Uighur Muslims. In recent weeks, news reports have emerged of the razing of mosques...
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06.04.18
How Should the World Respond to Intensifying Repression in Xinjiang?
Deliberate, systematic human rights abuses are happening in China’s northwest. Reporting and research published in recent weeks shows that the Chinese government is targeting the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region’s roughly 11 million Muslims for “re...
Conversation
06.30.17
What Does Xi Jinping Intend for Hong Kong?
Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Hong Kong on Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the July 1, 1997 return of the territory to China from the United Kingdom. Since the handover, many Hong Kongers have chafed under...
Conversation
06.09.17
Australia Is Debating Chinese Influence. Should the U.S. Do the Same?
“The Chinese Communist Party is waging a covert campaign of influence in Australia,” went the claim in the newspaper The Age, in a series of articles exploring China’s hard and soft power “Down Under.” The articles set off a domestic debate about...
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03.31.17
Is Hong Kong on Its Way to Becoming Just Another City in the P.R.C.?
On March 26, the roughly 1,200-person Hong Kong Election Committee chose Carrie Lam as chief executive—Hong Kong’s fourth leader since the United Kingdom returned the territory to Chinese rule in 1997. Unpopular with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy...