Michael Szonyi

Michael Szonyi is Professor of Chinese History and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. A historian of the Ming dynasty and the twentieth century, his books include The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China (2017) and Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line (2008).  He is the editor of A Companion to Chinese History (2017) and co-editor with Jennifer Rudolph of The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power (2018).