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At the Fringes of the Color Line: Re-Examining the One-Drop Rule Through the Transpacific Crossings of Chinese-White Biracials, 1912-1942
USC East Asian Languages & Cultures presents a talk by Emma Jinhua Teng.
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Emma J. Teng is the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations at MIT, with a dual appointment on the History and the Global Studies and Languages faculties, and the Director of the MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies. Teng is the author of Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (2006) and Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 (2013). She currently serves as the Chair of the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and on the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Harvard-Yenching Institute
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