Dr. Yuting Dong

Biography

Yuting Dong is a historian specializing in modern Japan and East Asia. His research focuses on issues of colonialism, labor history, and environmental history. He is currently finishing a manuscript titled "Japan’s Infrastructure Empire," which explores how Japanese colonial officials acquired knowledge and honed technological skills through interactions with local intermediaries and laborers, thereby appropriating local knowledge for imperial dominance, particularly in Manchuria. His academic work also examines the commodification and politicization of air within Japan's colonial empire. Dong earned his PhD from Harvard University in 2021 and served as an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International Area Studies before joining the History Department at the University of Chicago in July 2022. His published works include articles in leading journals such as "Modern Asian Studies" and "Technology and Culture."

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