Peiyu Yang, Assistant Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), is set to receive funding for the project: “State and Popular Voices in China-Arab Solidarity Building from 1949 to 1969: A Digital Humanities Project.”
She will focus specifically on how a solidarity between China and the Arab world was framed and championed in both state-sponsored/official publications and popular/unofficial publications in Arabic, Chinese, and European languages.
Yang will receive $45,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies for this project. Funding will begin in Aug. 2025 and will end in May 2026.
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