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![]() | Professor Xu Guoqi was born in China and taught both in Asia and the USA before joining the University of Hong Kong's History Department. He writes and has published widely in both Chinese and Engl |
![]() | Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is trying to understand what institutions encourage long-term economic growth and wealth formation. He studies the organization of credit markets and the evolution of inequal |
![]() | Stephen R. Platt is a historian of modern China, specializing in the nineteenth century and China's foreign relations. He holds a PhD in Chinese history from Yale University (2004), where his disse |
![]() | Mark R. Peattie was a visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was a professor of history emeritus at the Unive |
![]() | James Bradley is a New York Times number one best-selling author of four books on Pacific history. Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood made the movie of his first book, Flags of |
![]() | Julian Baird Gewirtz has been Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, an Academy Scholar at Harvard’s Weat |
![]() | I research and write about US-China Media and Tech Relations Aynne Kokas is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and a senior faculty fellow at the Miller Cen |
![]() | Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Previously, he |
![]() | Michael Saffle is Professor of Music in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. |
![]() | Madeline Y. Hsu is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and served as Director of the Center for Asian American Studies eight years (2006-2014). She was president |
![]() | Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre fo |
![]() | He has broad leadership experience, formerly serving as the Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer for Air Force Academy’s academic mission, leading 750 faculty & staff, managing a $7 |
![]() | I am the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy at the Sociology Department and the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins Uni |
![]() | Kevin Carrico is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Monash University and currently an Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow. Kevin is a sociocultural anthropologist who researches n |
![]() | I still don't have a very good answer as to why studying Chinese history has become my life passion. When I decided to learn Chinese in high school, I knew little about China, the Chinese language, |
![]() | Anne Reinhardt specializes in the modern history of China. Her first book, Navigating Semi-Colonialism in China, examines Western and Japanese imperialism in China through steamship transport |
![]() | I was educated at the Universities of Cambridge (PhD, Oriental Studies (Modern Chinese Economic History), 2008) and Oxford (BA, Oriental Studies (Chinese), 2003). I also hold a Certificate fr |
![]() | Elisabeth Köll pursued her undergraduate education at the University of Bonn in Germany and at Fudan University, Shanghai. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese Business History from Oxford University |
![]() | Professor Wang Gungwu is the Chairman of the East Asian Institute and University Professor, National University of Singapore. He is also Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University. |
![]() | Professor Kan Kimura is a Professor at Kobe University’s Graduate School of Cooperation Studies. He has also been a visiting scholar at various institutions, including Korea University, |