Yue Qiu, a member of Duke Kunshan University’s inaugural undergraduate class of 2022, has recently published her DKU Signature Work thesis in Slavery and Abolition, a leading international journal in the field of slavery studies.
Supervised by Professor Titas Chakraborty, her thesis, titled “‘Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country’: Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Writings on India and Its Legacies,” uncovers for the first time how U.S. abolitionists wrote about and understood South Asian societies. The piece can be accessed here.
Earlier this year, Qiu published another article in the C.L.R. James Journal, a leading journal on Caribbean thought. This project, developed under the supervision of Professor Jesse Olsavsky through DKU’s Humanities Research Center, is titled “A Forgotten Revolutionary Solidarity: The Echoes of the Haitian Revolution in China.” It examines how Chinese intellectuals used the Haitian Revolution as a mirror for understanding their own revolution. The paper can be accessed here.
While an undergraduate at DKU, Qiu took intensive courses in South Asian languages through the American Institute of Indian Studies. She is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researching the intellectual connections between India, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), and China during the era of decolonization. This past summer, she conducted research in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
