Hilde De Weerdt

Hilde De Weerdt is Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History at KU Leuven and Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. She obtained her PHD at Harvard University and taught at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Oxford University, King’s College London, and Leiden University. De Weerdt has published five books on Chinese political culture, focusing on the workings of late imperial Chinese bureaucratic infrastructures and political communication. She is currently working on a large project sponsored by the European Research Council and the Dutch Research Council on the longue durée history of material infrastructures in East Asia.