Christopher K. Tong

Christopher K. Tong is a China expert and tenured professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University and PhD from the University of California, Davis. He speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and German and has reading knowledge of French and Japanese.

Dr. Tong researches Chinese culture, politics, science, and technology. His upcoming book from Oxford University Press analyzes the emergence of modern science and ecological consciousness in Chinese and Western societies, drawing in part on archival research that he conducted at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the No. 2 Historical Archives in Nanjing. He has been recognized as a Fulbright Scholar, a China Studies Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies, a William S. Willis, Jr. Fellow by the American Philosophical Society, and a Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellow by the Thoreau Society.