Hong Jiang

Hong Jiang is an associate professor of geography at University of Hawaii whose work deals with environment and development issues in China, linking landscape change with attitudes toward nature, changing cultural practices, and state policy discourses regarding the environment. She has done extensive research in Inner Mongolia, a minority region in China, where she explored history of grassland transformation, cultural change, and government policies. Her current project critically examines North China Afforestation (the Great Green Wall) program.