Alan Huang

I am a Chinese-American. Born in Maryland and moved to Hong Kong in 2013, causing my life to be full of straddling cultural boundaries. My main interests are art, history, science fiction, literature and ecology, which I have always been passionate about from a young age. I obtained a B.A. in History and Fine Arts from HKU, a M.A. from UChicago (MAPH) with a heavy focus on science fiction and ecology, and a MPhil in Humanities at HKUST with research into contemporary Chinese exiles. One of my central interests is reimagining the relations between the human and the non-human. It is integral to my PhD research into Chinese environmental literature and cinema which explores human/nonhuman relations, industrialization, globalization, slow violence, ethnic minority cultural beliefs towards nature and social/ecological justice. My research will encompass the works of directors and writers including Li Ruijun, Jia Zhangke, Shen Congwen, Alai, and more. I intend to explore how the ecocritical themes in these works relate to ecocritical themes on an international scale.