James Poborsa

James Poborsa is a doctoral candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto whose research examines the intellectual, political, and cultural history of modern China, with a specific focus on the relationship between photography, political change, and theories of historical representation. His dissertation, entitled Staging the Future: The Politics of Photographic Representation in Postsocialist China, explores the development of documentary and conceptual photography in relation to the broader intellectual and cultural politics of postsocialist China. He has taught multiple courses on the history, politics, and culture of modern East Asia, and was previously a visiting doctoral researcher in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University (2014–15) and senior visiting scholar at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou (2013–14).

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