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Elizabeth Yen Tzu Liew is named a 2024 Elizabeth Spann Award recipient!

Congratulations to first-year MAIA student Elizabeth Yen Tzu Liew on being named a recipient of the 2024 Elizabeth Spann Award! 

Liz is one of 11 students to receive the award from the College of Arts, Language & Letters. This award will enable her to present her research, “A Desire to Belong: Deconstructing the Complexities of the Chinese Indonesian identity,” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia this July. 

Born to a Chinese Indonesian mother, Liz noticed her family members identified differently – some as Chinese, others as Chinese-Indonesians, while a handful did not feel they belonged in any of these categories. Her research explores the complexities of the Chinese Indonesian identity, and the spectrum of hybridity within their hybrid identities that further complicates our understanding of their identities. Her paper also presents the notion that the Chinese Indonesian identity does not fit into conventional nationalism theories that box identities into single frameworks. 

With Indonesia’s increasing strategic geopolitical value in the U.S-China relationship, this paper will be an interesting piece to highlight in her capstone where she will present a series of research papers related to China’s soft power strategies, engagements and policies across Asia-Pacific and the Chinese diaspora. 

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