#  Michael Szonyi 

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. 

Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Professor of Chinese History, Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of History, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** Modern history of rural China; and Chinese social and economic history, fifteenth-century to the present.



 

 

 





 

 

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