Tenggeer Hao

Tenggeer Hao specializes in Chinese film studies, media theory, and comparative philosophy, particularly Kantian idealism and I Ching metaphysics. His research examines how modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film transform and re-mediate premodern Chinese philosophical paradigms, especially those marginalized within modern scientism. He is broadly interested in the philosophical possibilities harbored in knowledge systems often deemed non-scientific—such as fengshui, astrology, and traditional Chinese medicine—and how they speak to the malaises and traumas of modern society. His dissertation, “The Mind Medium: A Yin-Yang Philosophy of Mind and Media,” examines the yin-yang dynamics of mind and body, concept and perception, time and space, and media and message through philosophizing divination and interpretation in the I Ching paradigm.

Education

• Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Cultures
  Columbia University

• M.A., Critical Asian Humanities
  Duke University

• B.A., Chinese Language and Literature
  Beijing Normal University