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Biography:
Libby Kao is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation studies paid and unpaid types of gendered caregiving labor in Taiwan and Asian American cultural production as an experiment in foregrounding social reproduction across scales of Asian economic exemplarity (the Tiger/Dragon miracle, the model minority) amid global care crisis. Her work has been published in Taiwan Lit and the Princeton Journal of Asian American Studies
Current Research:
social reproduction theory/Marxist feminisms, ethnography, world-systems analysis, affect theory, Sinophone studies, Inter-Asia critique, Global Asias, Transpacific
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