Notes on contributor
Li Hou is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Tongji University. She received her graduate education at Tong University (MUP’97) and at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (MDesS’05 & DDes’09). Her research interests lie at the transnational traveling of planning ideas, and the history of modern Chinese urban and regional planning. Her recent publications include Richard Paulick in Shanghai, 1933-1949: The Postwar Planning and Reconstruction of a Modern Chinese Metropolis (Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 2016), and Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018).