Xiangli Ding

Xiangli Ding joined the faculty at RISD in 2019. As a historian of modern China and environmental history, he offers courses on East Asian survey, modern China, the environmental history of East Asia, Chinese history through films and the Sino-US relationship history. His research interests lie at the intersection of the environment, technology, politics and human life in the Chinese past. He is currently finishing his first book manuscript, titled Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China (under contract with the Cambridge University Press). In the meantime, he has embarked on a new project on the environmental history of the Dongting Plain in the central Yangtze valley.