Fairbank Center: From Eco-Threat to Green Leader: Narratives of China’s Environment

Elizabeth Lord, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

This talk aims to unpack dominant narratives about China’s environment, see how they spatialize China, and examine their assumptions and political implications. This talk argues that the environment increasingly serves as a new platform to ‘re-orientalize’ China, or construct China as an environmental ‘other,’ by those outside the country.

Source: From Eco-Threat to Green Leader: Narratives of China’s Environment

Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University