Department of Politics and International Studies
Xu Peng
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- Roles
- Department of Politics and International Studies PhD researcher
- Email address
- 687318@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Rebel governance in Myanmar: the comparison study between Wa and Kokang (working title)
Biography
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Xu Peng is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD). She holds an MSc in Development Studies from LSE, and a Bachelor's degree in Public Diplomacy from Jilin University, China, before joining SOAS. Her project was supported by several grants, including the Sino-British Fellowship Trust, Universities' China Committee in London (UCCL)'s Travel Grant, the BAME Research Training Grant, and all SOAS Doctoral School grants.
Research interests
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Her research aims to understand how borderland organisations utilize the leverage of the nation-state to gain its territory and establish its governance. In her research, she adopts a border-centric narrative, as borderland history is not the same as state-centric narrative history. Using comparison cases between Wa and Kokang, two ethnic armed groups located on the Chinese-Myanmar borderland, she examines how these borderland organisations resist nation-building and establish their governance. She utilised multiple data sources and interdisciplinary methodologies during her research, including archival materials, interviews, and ethnographic research.
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