MOCA TALKS with Melody Yunzi Li: Cultural Mapping of American and Chinese Dreams

MOCA cordially invites you to join an insightful discussion with Dr. Melody Yunzi Li, Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies at the University of Houston and author of Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States. This event will explore how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. The conversation will feature Carah Naseem, Associate Editor at Rutgers University Press, and will be moderated by Yifan Wu, MOCA’s Director of Programs. Following an overview of Transpacific Cartographies, the discussion will touch on academic publishing and the burgeoning scholarship on colonialism and imperialism, labor and social justice movements, ecocriticism, and discourses on gender, sexuality, and race.