- Professor of Chinese and World History, University of California, Irvine
Author of works such as Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020), The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (2025), and the forthcoming Everything You Wanted to Know about China* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (2026). Editor of The Oxford History of Modern China (2022). Currently writing a book for Princeton University Press on Orwell and Asia. In 2023, was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and co-directs UC Irvine's Forum for the Academy and the Public,
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–presentProfessor of Chinese and World History, UC Irvine
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1989Berkeley, Doctorate/History
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