The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:
Christopher K. Tong
Assistant Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"Torrents of Revolution: Writing Environmental Disasters in Republican China"
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Bio: Christopher K. Tong is an assistant professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and currently serves on the executive committee of the Modern Language Association’s Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis as a postdoctoral fellow. His research focuses on ecological thinking and the representation of environmental disasters in modern China. His publications have appeared in Chinese Literature, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and edited volumes such as The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan.
Free and Open to the Public
This event is sponsored by the University of Maryland and by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
