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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2017/03/30/open-letter-on-feng-chongyis-situation/" target="_blank">Open letter on Feng Chongyi’s situation</a></h3>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In response to the situation currently faced by our Sydney colleague Feng Chongyi (<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/uts-professor-chongyi-fengs-daughter-yunsi-feng-calls-for-his-return-to-australia-20170330-gva8n6.html"><span class="s2"><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/uts-professor-chongyi-fengs-daughter-yunsi-feng-calls-for-his-return-to-australia-20170330-gva8n6.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.smh.com.au/national/uts-professor-chongyi-fengs-daughter-yunsi-feng-calls-for-his-return-to-australia-20170330-gva8n6.html</a></span></a>), concerned scholars have worked together to draft and collect initial signatures on an open letter in support of Feng. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If you would like to sign this open letter, please email <a href="mailto:scholars.for.feng@gmail.com"><span class="s2"><a href="mailto:scholars.for.feng@gmail.com">scholars.for.feng@gmail.com</a></span></a> with your name and affiliation. Please also feel welcome to share the content of this message with anyone else who may be interested in signing.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I appreciate your taking the time to consider this.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Kevin Carrico <</span><span class="s3"><a href="mailto:scholars.for.feng@gmail.com">scholars.for.feng@gmail.com</a>></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">An open letter to President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Dear President Xi and Prime Minister Li,</span><span class="s1"> </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">We the undersigned are members of the global China Studies community. We are deeply concerned by the travel restrictions recently placed upon Professor Feng Chongyi of the University of Technology Sydney, which have prevented him from departing the People’s Republic of China and returning to his workplace and family in Sydney since last week.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Professor Feng is an internationally respected scholar of intellectual and political developments in modern and contemporary China. He is the author of a number of groundbreaking books, and a frequent commentator on issues of importance in the Australian media. He is, furthermore, a vital contributor to the global China Studies community, and his presence in Australia has significantly enhanced its learning and research environments in Chinese Studies.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">We are disturbed that a fellow researcher, who has dedicated himself to promote the understanding of and interest in China, has been prevented from returning to his home and workplace for no reason other than his conscientious work as a China Studies scholar. Such actions make it difficult for the rest of us to be confident in the research environment in China today, and do not contribute positively to the continued construction of open and productive higher education collaboration between China and the rest of the world. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">In light of China’s commitment to expanding international scholarly engagements, we respectfully request that Professor Feng be released and permitted to return to his workplace and home in Sydney.</span></p>
<p class="p4">Oscar Almén, Uppsala University<br />
Geremie R Barmé, The Australian National University<br />
Mark Beeson, The University of Western Australia<br />
Jean-Philippe Béja, CERI-Sciences-Po<br />
Jonathan Benney, Monash University<br />
Gregor Benton, Cardiff University<br />
David Brophy, University of Sydney<br />
Kerry Brown, King’s College, London<br />
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Hong Kong Baptist University<br />
Kevin Carrico, Macquarie University<br />
Carolyn Cartier, University of Technology, Sydney<br />
Anita Chan, The Australian National University<br />
Vivien Wai-wan Chan, University of Technology, Sydney<br />
Jie Chen, University of Western Australia<br />
Minglu Chen, University of Sydney<br />
Jocelyn Chey, Western Sydney University<br />
Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of British Columbia<br />
Andrew Chubb, University of Western Australia<br />
John Clark, University of Sydney<br />
Michael Clarke, The Australian National University<br />
J. Michael Cole, University of Nottingham, CPI<br />
Anders Corr, U.S. Naval Institute<br />
Gloria Davies, Monash University<br />
Michael C. Davis, University of Hong Kong<br />
Bonnie Dawson, University of New South Wales<br />
Frank Dikötter, University of Hong Kong<br />
Clayton Dube, University of Southern California<br />
Richard Louis Edmonds, Retired<br />
Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne<br />
John Fitzgerald, Swinburne University of Technology<br />
Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison<br />
Hualing Fu, The University of Hong Kong<br />
Mark Harrison, University of Tasmania<br />
Colin Hawes, University of Technology, Sydney<br />
Emily M. Hill, Queen's University<br />
Christina Ho, University of Technology, Sydney<br />
Charles Horner, Hudson Institute<br />
Zejia Hu (MA, University of Technology, Sydney)<br />
Judy Huo, Artist<br />
Christopher R. Hughes, London School of Economics<br />
Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame<br />
J. Bruce Jacobs, Monash University<br />
Ellen R. Judd, University of Manitoba<br />
Carolin Kautz, Goettingen University<br />
Andrew Kipnis, The Australian National University<br />
Jon Eugene von Kowallis, University of New South Wales<br />
Mabel Lee, University of Sydney<br />
Seong-Hyon Lee, The Sejong Institute<br />
James Leibold, La Trobe University<br />
Perry Link, University of California, Riverside<br />
John Makeham, La Trobe University<br />
Ryan Manuel, The Australian National University<br />
Rory Medcalf, National Security College, The Australian National University<br />
Alice Lyman Miller, Hoover Institution, Stanford University<br />
Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University<br />
Elisa Nesossi, The Australian National University<br />
Heidi Norman, University of Technology, Sydney<br />
Tim Oakes, University of Colorado<br />
Eva Pils, Kings College London<br />
John Pretty, University of New South Wales<br />
Stein Ringen, University of Oxford<br />
David C. Schak, Griffith University<br />
Orville Schell, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society<br />
Victor Shih, University of California, San Diego<br />
Fred Smith, Macquarie University<br />
Alvin Y. So, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<br />
Dorothy Solinger, University of California, Irivine<br />
Yongyi Song, California State University, Los Angeles<br />
Warren Sun, Monash University<br />
Susan Tan, The Australian National University<br />
Frederick Teiwes, University of Sydney<br />
Steve Tsang, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London<br />
Jonathan Unger, The Australian National University<br />
Carsten Vala, Loyola University Maryland<br />
Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania<br />
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine<br />
Martin Whyte, Harvard University<br />
Martin Williams (PhD, University of Technology, Sydney, 2005)<br />
Teresa Wright, California State University, Long Beach<br />
Ming Xia, The City University of New York<br />
Haiqing Yu, The University of New South Wales<br />
Jinjiang Zhong, Australian Values Alliance<br />
Jinsheng (Wenzheng Zhu), Author<br />
David Zweig, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology</p>
<p class="p4">Kevin Carrico<br />
Lecturer, Chinese Studies<br />
Dept. of International Studies<br />
Macquarie University<br />
Building W6A, Room 227<br />
Ryde, NSW 2109 Australia<br />
<a href="https://mq.academia.edu/KevinCarrico" rel="nofollow">https://mq.academia.edu/KevinCarrico</a><br />
Tibet on Fire: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2051-tibet-on-fire</p>
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