Investigating "Mixed-Race" in 1930s Shanghai: American Sociologists Put China on the "Miscegenation Map"

Johns Hopkins University features a talk by Emma Teng and Wei Fong Chao about the "mixed-race" category in 1930s Shanghai.

Emma J. Teng is the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations and Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at MIT, where she teaches Chinese literature, East Asian Cultures, Asian American History and Women's Studies. Professor Teng earned her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where she specialized in Chinese studies and Asian American studies. Her first book, Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895, a study of Chinese colonial discourses on Taiwan, places the China-Taiwan relationship in the historical context of Chinese imperial expansionism. Her articles have appeared in both US and international academic journals. Emma Teng was an American Fellow of the American Association for University Women (1996-97), a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanities (2000-2001), and holder of the MIT Class of 1956 Career Development Professorship (2002-2005). In 2005 she was awarded the Levitan Prize in the Humanities and was a co-winner (with Professor Erik Demaine of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) of the MIT Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. Professor Teng was awarded the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and spent the academic year 2007-2008 as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her current book project examines the lives and writings of Chinese Eurasians in China and the US from 1850 until World War II.