TONG LAM
RESEARCH & VISUAL ARTS PROJECTS
Tong Lam is a historian, author, and visual artist. His research interests cover modern and contemporary China and East Asia, modernity, technoscience, spectacle and urbanism, social theory, colonialism, and nationalism. As a visual artist, he is particularly interested in using photographic and cinematographic techniques to explore and examine industrial and postindustrial ruins from around the world, as well as China's hysterical transformation. Lam received his PhD in History from the University of Chicago and is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
