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André Saraiva Santos is a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies at the University of Aveiro and an M.A. in Chinese Studies. He was a Lecturer at the Jilin International Studies University and the Guangzhou Xinhua University in the People's Republic of China. His researches are focused on post-colonial and orientalism in travel writing, comics, and film.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
André Saraiva Santos

Citation names

  • Saraiva Santos, André

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F31E-95C7-718F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1907-7740

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
  • Humanities - History and Archaeology
  • Humanities - Arts

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Chinese Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09 - 2026/07
Ongoing
 Estudos Culturais (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2012/09 - 2015/07
Concluded
 Estudos Chineses (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"O reconhecimento diplomático da Formosa e as suas consequências: o caso da República do Paraguai" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2009/09/01 - 2012/07/20
Concluded
 Línguas e Relações Empresariais (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09 - 2023/08 Lecturer (University Teacher) Guangzhou Xinhua University - Dongguan Campus, China
2018/09 - 2019/08 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015/09 - 2018/08 Lecturer (University Teacher) Jilin International Studies University, China

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013 - 2014 Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Câmara Municipal de São João da Madeira, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021 - 2022 Arte Portuguesa
CP-MUST-2020-07
PhD Student Fellow
Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR China
 Governo da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Saraiva Santos, André. "Manutenção das relações bilaterais entre a Formosa e o Paraguai". Paper presented in VIII Simpósio Eletrónico Internacional sobre Política Chinesa, 2017.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Saraiva Santos, André; Tianbo, Li. "Teaching Mandarin Chinese in Primary Schools of São João da Madeira". Paper presented in Research Day, 2013.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.32813.91360
Journal article
  1. Saraiva Santos, André. "O Cônsul (e o Coolie) Impossível em Havana [submitted]". Carnets. Revue életronique d'Estudes Françaises (2025):
    Submitted
  2. Saraiva Santos, André. "A Vénia do Incivilizado: Análise crítica ao Quadrinhos “Bomvento no Brasil” [in press]". Canoa do Tempo (2025):
    In press
  3. Saraiva Santos, André. "Resíduos de Império: Subalternidade e Exílio das Zanryu-fujin". Revista de Cultura 68 (2022): 67-83. http://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40068/4115.
    Open access • Published
  4. Saraiva Santos, André. "Despojos do colonizador: os zanryu-hojin exilados entre a política e a sociedade". Afro-Ásia 61 (2020): 191-227. https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/31885.
    Open access • Published • 10.9771/aa.v0i61.31885
  5. Saraiva Santos, André; Ma, Kehan. "A Igreja Católica na China: da introdução à "sinicização"". Tempo Exterior 36 (2018): https://www.igadi.gal/publicacions/tempo-exterior/tempo-exterior-no-36/.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Saraiva Santos, André. "Pós-Manchúria", Revista Fénix, 2021
Newsletter article
  1. Saraiva Santos, André. "The Colonizers’ Spoils: The Zanryu-Hojin Exiled between Politics and Society", International Institute for Asian Studies, 2024, https://www.iias.asia/sites/iias/files/nwl_article/2024-02/IIAS_NL97_20.pdf.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.12681.25443
Online resource
  1. Saraiva Santos, André. As Políticas Públicas para a Educação no Estado recém-estabelecido da Manchukuo. 2019. https://politica-china.org/areas/sociedad/as-politicas-publicas-para-a-educacao-no-estado-recem-estabelecido-da-manchukuo.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.10243.31525
Translation
  1. Saraiva Santos, André. Multilingual Dictionary Database (Chinese-Portuguese) [under revision]. Beijing, China: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2025.
    Under revision
  2. Wang, Suoying; Han, Tiange; Ma, Kehan; Camargo, António; Li, Qunying; Yang, Yijing; Chen, Yudong; Saraiva Santos, André. Economia e Comércio: Conversação em Português [under revision]. China: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. 2025.
    Under revision
  3. Guo, Mo. Arte Portuguesa. China: Communication University of China Press. 2022.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/12 The Portuguese Consulate in Havana under Eça de Queiroz: Constesting the Hagiography of a Canonical Cultural Reference [accepted] 15th European Social Science History Conference
Leiden University (Netherlands)
2024/08/21 Bomvento nas Terras do Pau Brasil: A Persistência do Mito Luso-Tropicalista numa História em Quadrinhos 5ª Congresso Internacional Mundos Indígenas, América - Arte, Cultura, Ancestralidade e Perspectivas para o Bem-Viver
Universidade Federal de Roraima (Boa Vista (RR), Brazil)
2024/07/19 O Descobrimento das Invasões: perspetivas coloniais e decoloniais nas bandas desenhadas "Bomvento no Brasil" e "New World" O Hábito faz o Colonizador: Narrativas e Artivismos no Pós-Colonial
Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)
2024/02/23 Desconstruindo o mito de Eça como Cônsul Humanista e Defensor dos Chineses em Havana Popular Culture Group Session
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/10/26 O Cônsul Impossível em Havana Colóquio Internacional Literatura e cinema: idas e voltas
Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)
2023/09/29 Idolatrar e esquecer: análise crítica aos estudos sobre o papel de Eça em Cuba e os coolies chineses III Congresso Internacional Diálogos Interculturais Portugal-China
Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)
2022/07 Repression and (Neo)Orientalism: Portuguese Writing about China from the late Nineteenth Century to the early Twenty-first century Research Summit ‘22
Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/07/18 - 2024/07/19 Co-organizer of the Conference "O Hábito faz o Colonizador: Narrativas e Artivismos no Pós-Colonial" (2024/07/18 - 2024/07/19)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Preparation of peer exams for the 4th edition of the Tomás Pereira Prize organized by the Portuguese Embassy in China and the Camões Institute (2018 - 2018)
Call (Member of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/23 Reviewer for DiGRA Conference, Track: Analysis
Conference
 DiGRA Conference (Digital Games Research Association)
2018/05 - 2018/05 Musical performance at the 7th Portuguese Language Song Festival
Call
 7º Festival da Canção em Língua Portuguesa
Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
2017/05/07 - 2017/05/07 Musical performance at the 6th Portuguese Language Song Festival
Call
 6º Festival da Canção em Língua Portuguesa
Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016 - 2018 Estudantuna Romancina at Jilin International Studies University Founder

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2015/05 - 2015/07 Mandarin and the Cultures of China Agrupamento de Escolas de Vouzela, Portugal
2013/07 - 2014/12 Basic Mandarin Colégio Nossa Senhora da Assunção, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/11/28 - 2024/12/31 Portuguese-Chinese translation editor in "Macao Matters" Multimedia Series Southern Metropolis Daily, China

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/04/22 - 2024/06/27 Comic Books, Geek Culture and the Fandom Imaginary [Credential ID: 9PSH5FX3NFJ2] University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

Coursera Inc, United States
2024/04 - 2024/06 Aboriginal Sydney - Cultural Competence [Credential ID EN5XPRQU4C93] The University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia

Coursera Inc, United States
Distinctions

Award

2022 2nd Prize in the National Competition "Me and China" promoted by the Portuguese Association of Friends of Chinese Culture and the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Portugal
Embassy of the People's Republic of China, India
2022 Outstanding Contribution in Guidance and Education
Guangzhou Xinhua University - Dongguan Campus, China
2017 High Degree of Excellence in Supervising M.A. Thesis
Jilin International Studies University, China
2016 Outstanding Contribution in Guidance and Education
Jilin International Studies University, China