Dr. Hanchao Lu

Biography

Hanchao Lu is a historian specializing in modern East Asian history. He has published extensively in principal journals and authored nine single-authored monographs published by major university presses, including the award-winning book 'Shanghai Tai Chi: Art Ruled Mao’s China' (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Lu serves as the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal, Chinese Historical Review, and is the editor of the sixteen-volume series, Culture Customs Asia (ABC-Clio), as well as the newly launched China Memoirs series. He has held prestigious visiting positions at various institutions such as the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Humboldt University in Berlin, the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he is an honorary Senior Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Lu is a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he contributes to the development of both undergraduate and graduate curricula on Asian history, society, and culture. In 2001, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Carter Center, he co-founded the China Research Center, an interuniversity center dedicated to promoting understanding of greater China, and in 2017, he managed the center’s headquarters journal, China Currents, at the Ivan Allen College of Georgia Tech.

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