Lecturer in Chinese

Career Summary

Dr Ayxem Eli has been a lecturer in Chinese at UTAS since February 2009. After teaching four years at Xinjiang University in China, Ayxem completed her MA in Anthropology at the University of Queensland and then PhD at the University of Melbourne. From 2006-2009, she worked as Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

Research Interests

Ayxem's academic expertise is in gender studies, post-socialist societies, and questions relating to people's welfare and well-being in China, particularly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach to research on issues of ethnicity, multi-culturalism, kinship and social support, the informal economy, and religion in China. Her current research project is entitled 'Peasants Stagger, but do not Fall: Social and Economic Investment for Securing Support in a Village in Northwest China'. This work deals with policy changes, and continuities and ruptures in the work of different agencies and institutions responsible for social support in a village in southern Xinjiang.

Units

• HMC309 - Chinese Research Project
  
• HMC312 - Chinese 3 Oral/Aural Skills A
  
• HMC403 - Guided Reading for Honours in Chinese