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Research interest: Chinese visual culture, cold war, socialist infographic, amateurism, Asian photography, the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics
I am currently an associate professor at the University of Toronto. My opinions are my own.
| website | https://www.yigu.ca/ |
| book | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244443 |
My upcoming online talk at the Folkwang Photo Talk:
Infrastructure of Persuasion: Chinese Photography and the Cold War.
5:30 pm (17:30) CET which is, for instance, 11:30 am EST and 1:30 am CST. Please email us for the Zoom link: [email protected]
See abstract here:
https://foto.folkwang-uni.de/en/journal/news/folkwang-photo-talk-yi-gu/detail/
Event in Toronto:
Emergency Palestine Teach-In
As the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Palestine has become extremely dire amidst the ongoing Israeli assault, Hearing Palestine is holding an emergency teach-in event on Palestine.
Date: Wednesday October 18th
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
See poster.
It is a female student in Nanjing (Communication University of China) who started the white paper revolution. Many English language news coverages emphasized the more familiar names such as Beijing University and Tsinghua, but the students in Nanjing and other parts of China are equally, if not more, courageous, creative, and resilient.
Never been so proud of being Chinese. Thank you for doing what my generation failed to do.
#MeToo in China:
Media, Activism, Patriarchy, Queer/ing Feminism and Beyond
November 18 (Friday) @12:00–2:00pm EST
Registration link: https://clnx.utoronto.ca/home/utsceventaggregator.htm?eventId=48747
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Heading to Odense for the conference "Aesthetics of Machine Vision."
https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=6559
This would be the first time I present my work on China's Digital Countryside at a conference. Really excited.