Cultural Mapping of American and Chinese Dreams

Dr. Melody Li is a Washington University Alumni and an Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies at the University of Houston.

Join Dr. Li for a discussion based on her book Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States (Rutgers University Press, 2023), which examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions.

 

Reception: 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Talk & Discussions: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM