Christopher K Tong
Christopher K. Tong is a China expert and tenured professor at the University of Maryland in Baltimore county north of Washington, DC. His upcoming book from Oxford University Press focuses on the impact of science and environmental thinking in Chinese and Western societies. He has been named a Fulbright Scholar, a China Studies Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies, a visiting fellow by the American Philosophical Society, and a Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellow by the Thoreau Society.
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While “ecological civilization” continues to accrue substance as a policy framework, it appears to be a contradictory term from a historical perspective. Ironically, China’s claim to be one of the world’s oldest civilizations is at odds with its long history of environmental transformation. I call this the “paradox of China’s sustainability”: if a civilization thrives by modifying, exploiting, and damaging its ecosystems—and has done so for several millennia—does it make sense to call it a “sustainable” one?
Tong, Christopher K. "The Irony of China's 'Ecological Civilisation'." In Shades of Green: Notes on China’s Eco-civilisation, book series of Made in China, edited by Olivier Krischer and Luigi Tomba, 33-35. Sydney: The University of Sydney, 2020.
Tong, Christopher K. “The Paradox of China’s Sustainability.” In Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the Margins, edited by Chia-ju Chang, 239-270. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Tong, Chris. “Toward a Hong Kong Ecocinema.” In Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge, edited by Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi, 171-193. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
内容提要: 西方对观众接受的研究在文学、电影、媒体、表演等学术领域里都占有一席之地。观众群体作为一个整体在全球的文化界内成为了一股强大的影响力, 其中的原因在于借助了传统大众媒体之外的网络、社交媒体等交流渠道的帮助, 观众群体的参与性已经突破了线下集会这一局限。在生态电影的研究领域里, 近期的学术成果把研究的焦点从生态电影的形式、心理、历史、物质和跨文化维度拓展到了诸如思考关于个体观影者如何接受特定电影这类涉及到实证研究法的问题。本文中, 作者论述了观众与公众二者间在概念上的纠葛, 并分析了生态电影在接受过程中引起的美学判断与政治参与间的张力。
Tong, Christopher K. 唐思凯 "Ecocinema's Audiences and Publics 生态电影的观众与公众." Huaxia wenhua luntan 华夏文化论坛 19, no. 1 (2018): 391-402.
Tong, Christopher K. “Scale.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 10, no. 1 (2016): 23-26.
Tong, Christopher K. “Nonhuman Poetics (By Way of Wang Guowei).” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 37 (2015): 5-28.
Tong, Chris. “Ecocinema for All: Reassembling the Audience.” Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture 4, no. 2 (2013): 113-128.
Tong, Chris. “Ecology without Scale: Unthinking the World Zoom.” Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 2 (2014): 196-211.
Book Reviews
Tong, Chris. Review of Leung Ping-kwan’s City at the End of Time. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 21, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 295-298.
Teaching Documents
Law, Kar. “In Search of Esther Eng: Border-Crossing Pioneer in Chinese-Language Filmmaking.” In Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts, edited by Wang Lingzhen, translated by Chris Tong, 313-329. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Zhan, Hongzhi. “Two Types of Literary Mind.” In The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan, edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan, translated by Chris Tong, 310-313. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Zhan, Hongzhi. “Taiwan Consciousness of the Taiwanese People.” In The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan, edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan, translated by Chris Tong, 329-331. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Song, Dongyang (Chen, Fang-ming). “The Question of Nativization in Taiwan Literature at the Present Stage.” In The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan, edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan, translated by Chris Tong, 343-346. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
While “ecological civilization” continues to accrue substance as a policy framework, it appears to be a contradictory term from a historical perspective. Ironically, China’s claim to be one of the world’s oldest civilizations is at odds with its long history of environmental transformation. I call this the “paradox of China’s sustainability”: if a civilization thrives by modifying, exploiting, and damaging its ecosystems—and has done so for several millennia—does it make sense to call it a “sustainable” one?
Tong, Christopher K. "The Irony of China's 'Ecological Civilisation'." In Shades of Green: Notes on China’s Eco-civilisation, book series of Made in China, edited by Olivier Krischer and Luigi Tomba, 33-35. Sydney: The University of Sydney, 2020.
Tong, Christopher K. “The Paradox of China’s Sustainability.” In Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the Margins, edited by Chia-ju Chang, 239-270. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Tong, Chris. “Toward a Hong Kong Ecocinema.” In Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge, edited by Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi, 171-193. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
内容提要: 西方对观众接受的研究在文学、电影、媒体、表演等学术领域里都占有一席之地。观众群体作为一个整体在全球的文化界内成为了一股强大的影响力, 其中的原因在于借助了传统大众媒体之外的网络、社交媒体等交流渠道的帮助, 观众群体的参与性已经突破了线下集会这一局限。在生态电影的研究领域里, 近期的学术成果把研究的焦点从生态电影的形式、心理、历史、物质和跨文化维度拓展到了诸如思考关于个体观影者如何接受特定电影这类涉及到实证研究法的问题。本文中, 作者论述了观众与公众二者间在概念上的纠葛, 并分析了生态电影在接受过程中引起的美学判断与政治参与间的张力。
Tong, Christopher K. 唐思凯 "Ecocinema's Audiences and Publics 生态电影的观众与公众." Huaxia wenhua luntan 华夏文化论坛 19, no. 1 (2018): 391-402.
Tong, Christopher K. “Scale.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 10, no. 1 (2016): 23-26.
Tong, Christopher K. “Nonhuman Poetics (By Way of Wang Guowei).” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 37 (2015): 5-28.
Tong, Chris. “Ecocinema for All: Reassembling the Audience.” Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture 4, no. 2 (2013): 113-128.
Tong, Chris. “Ecology without Scale: Unthinking the World Zoom.” Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 2 (2014): 196-211.
Tong, Chris. Review of Leung Ping-kwan’s City at the End of Time. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 21, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 295-298.
Law, Kar. “In Search of Esther Eng: Border-Crossing Pioneer in Chinese-Language Filmmaking.” In Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts, edited by Wang Lingzhen, translated by Chris Tong, 313-329. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Zhan, Hongzhi. “Two Types of Literary Mind.” In The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan, edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan, translated by Chris Tong, 310-313. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Zhan, Hongzhi. “Taiwan Consciousness of the Taiwanese People.” In The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan, edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan, translated by Chris Tong, 329-331. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Song, Dongyang (Chen, Fang-ming). “The Question of Nativization in Taiwan Literature at the Present Stage.” In The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan, edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan, translated by Chris Tong, 343-346. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.