This is the second of two events in the Summer Book Club co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific Studies Institute and Duke Libraries' Global Studies Department. The book club will feature author and professor Viet Thanh Nguyen, be held online.

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Professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (Duke) concludes our two-book sequence with Nguyen's newest book, To Save and to Destroy, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. The discussion will take place online, so members of the community near and far are welcome to join.

Eileen Cheng-yin Chow is Associate Professor of the Practice in Chinese and Japanese Cultural Studies at Duke University, and one of the founding directors of Story Lab at Duke. She is Director of Graduate Studies for APSI and a founding/core faculty member of Duke's Asian American and Diaspora Studies program.

Elsewhere, Eileen is Director of the Cheng Shewo Institute of Chinese Journalism at Shih Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan, and she co-directs the Biographical Literature Press and its longstanding Chinese-language history journal, Biographical Literature. Eileen serves on the executive board of the LA Review of Books, and as co-editor of the Duke University Press book series, Sinotheory. Among Eileen’s ongoing collaborative projects this year include co-editing the Routledge Introduction to Modern and Contemporary East Asian Literature; serving as dramaturg for Jingqiu Guan's multimedia dance project on rail travel and the Asian diaspora; and also, with Mae Ngai (Columbia), editing the unpublished writings of pioneer Asian American author Louis Chu.

Eileen received her A.B. in Literature from Harvard (with academic sojourns at the Sorbonne, National Taiwan University, and the University of Perugia), and her Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Stanford.