Victoria Tin-bor Hui is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and her B.SSc. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hui’s core research examines the centrality of war in the formation and transformation of “China” in the long span of history. She is the author of War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Hui also studies contentious politics. As a native from Hong Kong, she has written on Hong Kong’s democracy movement for Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Democracy, Monkey Cage, and other outlets.

Last Updated: August 12, 2019

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