BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal: National Imaginaries, Ethnographic Anxieties, and Geopolitical Power ABSTRACTThis talk examines China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Nepal to argue that infrastructure is a symbolic project of national development imaginaries, a process and practice of state formation, and a vector for […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES China’s Islamic Outreach to the Middle East ABSTRACTThroughout its existence, the People’s Republic of China has depended on Chinese Muslims to foster relationships in the Arab world. But Beijing’s strategies for engaging its Muslim population in foreign outreach have changed dramatically over time. This lecture will focus on […]