Yuqing Qiu

History

Yuqing Qiu is a historian of modern China, whose scholarship examines food security in China through a transnational history of the Great Leap Famine (1958-1962). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford Faculty of History, and an affiliate fellow at Nuffield College. Her current postdoctoral project focuses on the interplay of food aid, refugees, and humanitarian action from the postwar years towards the end of the Cold War. The project explores, in particular, the non-linear and non-monolithic political affiliations of humanitarian and religious actors operating within Asian and socialist contexts. Her research also examines the production and circulation of humanitarian knowledge in Cold War Asia. She held a PhD with a dissertation titled: A Transnational History of the Great Leap Famine: Information Circulation and Reception of Famine Refugees in Hong Kong and Macau, 1958-1962 (Sciences Po Paris, 2025). Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including China Perspectives and Monde (s) : Histoire, Espace, Relations.

Prior to joining Oxford, she taught in the Department of History at Sciences Po Paris. She was a Fox Fellow at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (2023-2024). During her doctoral studies, she held visiting positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2023), the University of Oxford (2021-2022), and the École française de Rome (2024).

Publication

Yuqing Qiu, « From World History to Cultural Debates: Wittfogel among Chinese Intellectuals and Competing Visions on China’s Modernization » dans le dossiers “Le « Despotisme » de l'Autre”, Monde (s), Histoire, Espaces, Relations, n° 27 (2025). (https://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes-2025-1-page-69?lang=en).
“Angelina Y. Chin: Unsettling Exiles : Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery during the Cold War, Columbia University Press, New York, 2023”, In China Perspectives, n° 139 (avril 2025) : https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/1753