We are delighted to welcome as our October guest blogger Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies and Director of Asian Studies at Northeastern University. Prof. Thai is a historian of modern China and East Asia with research and teaching interests in legal, economic, and diplomatic history. His research examines the complex interplay between law, society, and economy. He is the author China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965, which came out with Columbia University Press in 2018. Prof. Thai's research has been supported by many funding bodies, including the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, Fulbright-Hays Program, Social Science Research Council, and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. He is an ACLS Burkhardt Fellow in 2022-23 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Prof. Thai is also former fellow of the Hurst Institute in Legal History.You can follow Prof. Thai on Twitter @philip_thai
Welcome, Prof. Thai!
--Mitra Sharafi
