Pat Giersch is Professor of History at Wellesley College, where he teaches courses designed to help students investigate how historical developments have shaped China, East and Inner Asia, and the globe. He is the author of Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China’s Yunnan Frontier (Harvard University Press, 2006).
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Remembering Jonathan Spence
A few weeks after Jonathan Spence, the celebrated historian of China, died at Christmas, ChinaFile began collecting reminiscences from his classmates, doctoral students, and colleagues spanning the five decades of his extraordinary career as a...