Tobie Meyer-Fong is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China and Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou. She has served as the Editor of the journal Late Imperial China for more than a decade. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1989 and her Doctoral degree from Stanford University in 1998.
Last Updated: March 22, 2017
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How Does China’s Imperial Past Shape Its Foreign Policy Today?
Throughout most of history China dominated Asia, up until what many Chinese refer to as the “century of humiliation”—when Japan and Western powers invaded or otherwise interfered between 1839 and 1949. Now, with China on the rise again, are Beijing’...