Xu Guoqi
Historian and founding director of the Institute of Transnational History of China at the University of Hong Kong, author of The Idea of China: A Contested History (Harvard UP, 2026), who discusses Chinese history, transnational perspectives, and personal experience.
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Mar 8, 2026 • 1h 11min
Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested History" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Xu Guoqi, historian of modern China and founder of the Institute of Transnational History of China, explores who and what counts as China. He discusses sports and transnational identities, contested national narratives, shared-history methodology, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and how personal lives reshape ideas of nationhood.
Mar 8, 2026 • 1h 11min
Guoqi Xu, "The Idea of China: A Contested History" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Xu Guoqi, historian and founding director of the Institute of Transnational History of China at the University of Hong Kong. He explores what counts as China and who counts as Chinese. He discusses nationalist narratives, transnational ties from WWI laborers to modern flows, and how personal histories and global exchange reshape Chinese identity.
