About Kevin

KevinL
Associate Director, Teach China (and, more crucially, primary dog caretaker for Chewbacca and Heidi). Kevin was educated in the Comparative Literature department at the University of Iowa as well as the Ph.D. program in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He has studied at various Chinese and Taiwanese institutions including Nanjing University, Qinghua University and the Taiwan National University. He has taught courses on Chinese literature, history, and culture at the China Institute, University of Chicago, and the Dalton School.

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History Sustainability
January 20th, 2012
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China has a long and dynamic history of economic development that has often been obscured in the West by outmoded notions of China as a static, “Asiatic” empire built upon agricultural production that prevented it from entering the capitalist world economic system on par with Europe and North America during the early modern era.

Material Culture Sustainability
January 20th, 2012
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During our 2010 and 2011 study tours, participants grappled with the idea of sustainable material [...]

People and Culture Sustainability
January 20th, 2012
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One theme for our 2010 and 2011 study tours to China was sustainability. The traditional [...]

Appreciation Sustainability
January 20th, 2012
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Appreciation of Sustainable Development can be viewed through two lenses: appreciation of the sustainability of [...]

Geography Sustainability
January 20th, 2012
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It seems self-evident that the massive internal migration of China’s population in the last thirty [...]

Culture and People Reform
September 23rd, 2011
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Of the various social reforms China has undergone over the past three decades, perhaps none has impacted individual Chinese citizens and families more intimately and with such profound large-scale social consequences than evolving family planning policies designed to dramatically slow China’s population growth.

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