1990-5 University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies. D.Phil.
1990年5月，牛津大学东方研究学院，哲学博士

1992-3 Xiamen University, P.R.C., Advanced Research Student
1992年3月，中华人民共和国厦门大学，高级进修生

1988-90 National Taiwan University, Departments of History and Philosophy, Visiting Student
1988年至1990年，国立台湾大学历史与哲学系，访问学生

1985-88 University of Toronto. B.A. with High Distinction, Chinese Studies and International Relations
1985年至1988年，多伦多大学，以优异成绩获得文学士学位，专业为中国研究和国际关系

Michael Szonyi, Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and a historian of Ming, Qing, and modern Chinese society. He specializes in using historical anthropology and fieldwork methods to study the social history of China and Southeast Asia. His works include *Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China* (2002), *Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line* (2008), *The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China* (2018); edited volumes include *The China Question: Critical Insights into a Rising Power* (2018) and *A Companion to Chinese History* (2017). ◎ Translator’s Bio Zhong Yiming, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, Peking University. He received his bachelor's degree from the Department of History at Peking University and his master's degree from St. Cross College, University of Oxford. His research interests include modern Chinese history and the history of overseas Chinese. He has translated Robert Bickers’s *The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832–1914* (unpublished).

宋怡明（Michael Szonyi），哈佛大学东亚语言文明系中国历史学教授，费正清研究中心主任，明清及中国近代社会史学家。擅长利用历史人类学和田野调查方法研究中国东南亚地区的社会史。著有Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China（2002），Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line（2008），The Art of Being Governed：Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China（2018）；编有The China Question: Critical Insights into a Rising Power（2018），A Companion to Chinese History（2017）。

◎ 译者简介

钟逸明，北京大学历史学系博士研究生。本科就读于北京大学历史学系，硕士就读于牛津大学圣十字学院。研究兴趣包括中国现代史和华人华侨史。曾翻译毕可思（Robert Bickers）著The Scramble for China：Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire，1832—1914（尚未出版）。