A former graduate student in English and the Unit for Criticism, Dan Vukovich is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at The University of Hong Kong, where he teaches China-West cultural studies, world literature and film, and critical theory.  His book manuscript in progress,  Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West’s Post-Mao China,” makes the case for a global, China-centered re-constitution of orientalism since Said, the 1970s and the putative end of the Cold War.  He has published on Benetton, William Hinton, and the concept of “Asia” in inter-Asian history, and  is co-editor, with Yan Hairong, of a forthcoming special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique entitled “What’s Left of  ‘Asia’?”

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