Cities Surround the Countryside

Robin Visser is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in Chinese urban cultural studies, literary studies, and environmental humanities. Her book, Questioning Borders: Eco-Literatures in China and Taiwan (Columbia University Press, 2023), compares Han Chinese and non-Han Indigenous literatures of the environment.

Robin Visser is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in Chinese urban cultural studies, literary studies, and environmental humanities. Her book, Questioning Borders: Eco-Literatures in China and Taiwan (Columbia University Press, 2023), compares Han Chinese and non-Han Indigenous literatures of the environment.