Adrian Zenz

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Adrian Zenz (* 1974 ) is a German anthropologist .

He became known to a broader public primarily through his publications on the handling of the People's Republic of China with the Uyghur ethnic group .

education

Adrian Zenz studied social anthropology and holds a master's degree from the University of Auckland . For his doctoral thesis in social anthropology, he conducted field research in Qinghai Province . His Ph.D. he received from the University of Cambridge .

Life

In 2012 Adrian Zenz wrote a book about the end times in the Bible together with his father-in-law . Zenz professes himself to be a born again Christian . He led Christian development work in China and was a lecturer at the Evangelical Academy for World Mission near Stuttgart in 2017 .

According to Die Tageszeitung from February 2020, Zenz had been conducting studies on the oppression of the Muslim minority in Xinjiang independently and on his own account for years. For example, in April 2019, as an independent researcher, he wrote a statement for the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag .

In May 2019, the wrote the Wall Street Journal about Zenz research that he had carried out on the basis of research on the Internet since 2018 on the handling of the Chinese leadership with the ethnic group of Uyghur. Zenz stated that he derives motivation for his work from religion and emphasized that he felt guided by God.

In June 2020, he published a widely acclaimed study for the Jamestown Foundation on the measures taken by the Chinese government to “suppress” the Uighur population.

Zenz is listed as a "Senior Fellow" by the US Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation .

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Adrian Zenz" archived from 2015 on web.archive.org , the original on the awm website at [1] awm-korntal.eu
  2. ↑ a b Christoph Giesen: "Nothing is good" sueddeutsche.de of October 27, 2017
  3. ^ "Adrian Zenz" archived on January 17, 2020 on web.archive.org , original on the Victims of Communism website at [2] victimsofcommunism.org
  4. ↑ a b c d Josh Chin: "The German Data Diver Who Exposed China's Muslim Crackdown" Wall Street Journal May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 on wsj.com
  5. ↑ a b Fabian Kretchmer: "Arbitrariness against Uyghurs" TAZ of February 18, 2020
  6. ↑ Arian Zenz: "Statement on the questions of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group for the 30th meeting of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag" April 26, 2019
  7. ^ Adrian Zenz: Sterilizations, IUDs, and Mandatory Birth Control: The CCP's Campaign to Suppress Uyghur Birthrates in Xinjiang. The Jamestown Foundation, June 2020, pp. 1–28 , accessed July 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ [3] jamestown.org
personal data
SURNAME Zenz, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974