David H Y Chang Professorship in Chinese History

Professor Xu Guoqi received his PhD in history from Harvard University. He is the Founding Director of The Institute of Transnational History of China at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and was the inaugural Kerry Group Professor in Globalisation History.

Professor Xu is a world leading scholar in transnational history of China and shared history in the world. He has published widely in both Chinese and English. His monographs in English including The Idea of China: A Shared History (forthcoming from Harvard University Press), Asia and the Great War: A Shared History (Oxford University Press), Chinese and Americans: A Shared History (Harvard University Press), Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Harvard University Press), Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 (Harvard University Press), and China and the Great War (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Xu has served as a visiting professor at Cambridge University, King’s College London, University College Dublin, University of Melbourne, Harvard University, Yale University, and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, among other places. He has received recognitions for his research, including the Shigemitsu Fellowship from the Global Culture Center of the Japan Society of Boston for best study in global cultural affairs, Outstanding Researcher Award from HKU, the best book of the year award from International Society of Olympic Historians, the Best Book Award from The Chinese American Librarians Association, and the Academic Excellence Award from the Chinese Historians in the United States, among others.