David Xu Borgonjon

Field: Contemporary Art, Modern Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian Literature, Economic Philosophy
Advisor: Lydia H. Liu
Email: david.borgonjon@columbia.edu

David Xu Borgonjon’s dissertation, “Revolution’s Middlemen,” examines the politics of the Chinese language in modern Indonesia through the media and literature of the Sinophone left from 1945 to 1965. He also has an interest in Asian-American studies and contemporary and modern art of East and Southeast Asia.