Lan Dong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6849681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lan Dong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dong |
| SIGNATURE | DONG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9400-8027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Pedagogical Guide to Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts
Recurrence in Sequence
This article examines how Katie Green’s graphic memoir Lighter Than My Shadow (2013) visualizes the invisible and the unconscious at the intersection of mental health and coming of age. Contextualizing Green’s work within the studies of graphic medicine and psychoanalysis, it investigates the black nonsensical scribbles in different shapes and sizes throughout the book. It discusses how their recurrence externalizes the narrator’s struggles with …
Girlhood Reimagined
I examine how Malaka Gharib's I Was Their American Dream and It Won't Always Be Like This frame, embody, and reimagine girlhood through a multicultural transnational lens. Born in California, Gharib grew up with Filipino and Egyptian heritage. Taking advantage of the formal properties of comics, her work situates her memories and experiences at the intersection of ethnicity, gender, and transnational encounters. I interrogate how these books visu…
Exploring the religious and spiritual trajectory of cathedral choristers in England
The present paper reports findings from interviews with thirty exchoristers from cathedrals and collegiate chapels in England, aged from eighteen to eighty. These interviews explored choristers' religious commitments before entering choir school and factors for staying with, leaving, or later returning to religious practice. The findings suggest that the attitudes to religion among ex-choristers mirror those of the wider population and confirms t…
Is technology always helpful
While education technology has been widely used in classrooms, and considerable investments have been made to support its use in the UK, the evidence base for many such rapidly changing technologies is weak, and their efficacy is unclear. The aim of this paper is to systematically review and synthesise empirical research on the use of technology in formative assessment, to identify approaches that are effective in improving pupils’ learning outco…
Events That Shaped Asian American History
Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American history, society, and culture. This book presents key events in the Asian American experience through 25 well-developed, accessible essays; detailed timelines; biographies of notable figures; excerpts of primary source documents; and sidebars and images that provide narrative and visual information on high-interest topics. Arranged chronologically, the 25 essays showcase the ways in …
Drawing the troubled artist abroad
This article interrogates the multiple roles Guy Delisle plays – author, narrator and commentator – all at once in his visual narratives: Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China (2006b), Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2007b) and Burma Chronicles (2008). It examines how Delisle represents his interaction with foreign lands and people as well as the negative and positive impression left by travel through his first-person narrator, a troubled artist…
Writing Chinese America into Words and Images
The story of the ancient woman warriorâ Mulanâ has attracted repeated attention in China and the United States. This paper explores how words and images of the recreated Mulan story work together to construct a Chinese American tale that not only captures the cultural heritage of ancient China, but also conveys possibilities for female empowerment in the context of storytelling for Asian American and Asian diaspora children. The discussion on Jea…
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Writing Chinese America into Words and Images
The story of the ancient woman warriorâ Mulanâ has attracted repeated attention in China and the United States. This paper explores how words and images of the recreated Mulan story work together to construct a Chinese American tale that not only captures the cultural heritage of ancient China, but also conveys possibilities for female empowerment in the context of storytelling for Asian American and Asian diaspora children. The discussion on Jea…
Drawing the troubled artist abroad
This article interrogates the multiple roles Guy Delisle plays – author, narrator and commentator – all at once in his visual narratives: Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China (2006b), Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2007b) and Burma Chronicles (2008). It examines how Delisle represents his interaction with foreign lands and people as well as the negative and positive impression left by travel through his first-person narrator, a troubled artist…
Events That Shaped Asian American History
Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American history, society, and culture. This book presents key events in the Asian American experience through 25 well-developed, accessible essays; detailed timelines; biographies of notable figures; excerpts of primary source documents; and sidebars and images that provide narrative and visual information on high-interest topics. Arranged chronologically, the 25 essays showcase the ways in …
Is technology always helpful
While education technology has been widely used in classrooms, and considerable investments have been made to support its use in the UK, the evidence base for many such rapidly changing technologies is weak, and their efficacy is unclear. The aim of this paper is to systematically review and synthesise empirical research on the use of technology in formative assessment, to identify approaches that are effective in improving pupils’ learning outco…
Exploring the religious and spiritual trajectory of cathedral choristers in England
The present paper reports findings from interviews with thirty exchoristers from cathedrals and collegiate chapels in England, aged from eighteen to eighty. These interviews explored choristers' religious commitments before entering choir school and factors for staying with, leaving, or later returning to religious practice. The findings suggest that the attitudes to religion among ex-choristers mirror those of the wider population and confirms t…
Girlhood Reimagined
I examine how Malaka Gharib's I Was Their American Dream and It Won't Always Be Like This frame, embody, and reimagine girlhood through a multicultural transnational lens. Born in California, Gharib grew up with Filipino and Egyptian heritage. Taking advantage of the formal properties of comics, her work situates her memories and experiences at the intersection of ethnicity, gender, and transnational encounters. I interrogate how these books visu…
A Pedagogical Guide to Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts
Recurrence in Sequence
This article examines how Katie Green’s graphic memoir Lighter Than My Shadow (2013) visualizes the invisible and the unconscious at the intersection of mental health and coming of age. Contextualizing Green’s work within the studies of graphic medicine and psychoanalysis, it investigates the black nonsensical scribbles in different shapes and sizes throughout the book. It discusses how their recurrence externalizes the narrator’s struggles with …
Art (4 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · China (2 works)