Background:

Dr. Nianshen Song is professor at the Tsinghua Institute of Advanced Studies, affiliated with the Department of History, Tsinghua University. Receiving PhD in International History at University of Chicago (2013), his research and teaching focus on late imperial and modern China from global and regional perspectives, with special interests in China’s ethnic frontiers, East Asian trans-regional networks, historical geography, and urban studies. 

Publications:

Dr. Song is the author of The Neighborhood: Space, State and Society in a Manchurian City (The University of Chicago Press, 2025), Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Faxian Dongya [Discovering East Asia] (Beijing: New Star Press, 2018) and Zhizao Yazhou [Mapping Asia] (Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2024). His journal articles have appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of Asian Studies, Inner Asia, Geopolitics, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Research, Qingshi Yanjiu, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Journal of Peking University, Sociological Review of China, Xinshixue, Dushu, Kaifang shidai, among others