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Shanghai Expo 2010: Economy, Ecology, and the Second Coming of Capitalism in China
David Leiwei Li will present photographic slides at the University of Oregon.
When:
May 5, 2011 12:00pm to 12:00am
David Leiwei Li is Professor of English, and Collins Professor of the Humanities at the University of Oregon. He is author of Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent (Stanford UP, 1998) and editor of Globalization and the Humanities (Hong Kong UP, 2004). His book in progress, Globalization on Speed: Culture, Capital, and Chinese Cinema, is under contract with Stanford University Press, and he has just assumed editorship for Major Works: Asian American Literature, a four-volume, 1,600 pp. project of criticism for Routeldge, UK.
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