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.
Academic areas of interest
Twentieth-Century China Environmental history East Asian history History of water and energy Film and Chinese history
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
HPSS S174-01 - MODERN CHINA: CULTURE, POLITICES AND SOCIETY
LevelUndergraduate
UnitHistory, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences
Subject History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatLecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
HPSS S174-01
MODERN CHINA: CULTURE, POLITICES AND SOCIETY
LevelUndergraduate
UnitHistory, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences
Subject History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatLecture
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PMInstructor(s): Xiangli DingLocation(s): Washington Place, Room 302Enrolled / Capacity: 25Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
China has been undergoing tremendous changes in the modern era. This course explores the Chinese political and social transformations from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty until today. After a broad survey of modern Chinese history in the past four centuries, including the Manchu conquest, the Nationalist Revolution, the Communist Revolution, the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform and opening-up era, we will take a closer look at the political and social structure, one-child policy, frontier/ethnic issue, urban/rural discrepancy and other issues in modern China. Through readings and discussions, this course will deepen our understanding of China from a critical as well as an empathetic perspective.
Elective
HPSS S174-02 - MODERN CHINA: CULTURE, POLITICES AND SOCIETY
LevelUndergraduate
UnitHistory, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences
Subject History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatLecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
HPSS S174-02
MODERN CHINA: CULTURE, POLITICES AND SOCIETY
LevelUndergraduate
UnitHistory, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences
Subject History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatLecture
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PMInstructor(s): Xiangli DingLocation(s): College Building, Room 346Enrolled / Capacity: 25Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
China has been undergoing tremendous changes in the modern era. This course explores the Chinese political and social transformations from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty until today. After a broad survey of modern Chinese history in the past four centuries, including the Manchu conquest, the Nationalist Revolution, the Communist Revolution, the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform and opening-up era, we will take a closer look at the political and social structure, one-child policy, frontier/ethnic issue, urban/rural discrepancy and other issues in modern China. Through readings and discussions, this course will deepen our understanding of China from a critical as well as an empathetic perspective.
