Dr. Xiaoliang Li teaches Chinese in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is developing Georgia’s online Chinese language course, and has taught a course with Feiling Wang on contemporary topics with Chinese as the language of discourse. She has a number of research projects relating to linguistics, including how people acquire a second language and why Chinese syntax is structured the way it is. She also is working on a project based on solders’ letters written during the U.S.-Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese wars in the1960s and 1970s. Dr. Li’s Ph.D. is from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Cai Rong teaches Chinese, Chinese literature and Chinese film at Emory in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. She is currently working on the representation of history in popular culture in China today using the image of nation in contemporary historical TV dramas. She spent part of fall semester doing research in China. Dr. Rong’s Ph.D. in Chinese and Comparative Literature is from Washington University in St. Louis. Her forthcoming book, The Subject of Crisis in Contemporary Literature, is being published by University of Hawaii Press.
Dr. Joachim Kurtz teaches at Emory in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. His current research interests are, first, the history of Chinese-Western exchanges from the 17th century to the present, with special emphasis on the history of science and thought and issues of translation. His second area of interest is modern Chinese political thought. Most recently, Joachim has been involved in a collaborative project studying similarities and differences in Chinese, Japanese and Korean nationalisms. Dr. Kurtz earned his Ph.D. in Chinese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.