Michael Szonyi

Michael A. Szonyi (born May 18, 1967) is Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China, especially in the Ming dynasty, the history of Chinese popular religion, and Overseas Chinese history.

Biography
Szonyi received a BA from the University of Toronto and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. After completing his doctorate, he worked at McGill University, later moving to University of Toronto, where he received tenure in 2002. Szonyi came to Harvard in 2005, and was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in 2007 and Professor of Chinese History in 2009. Today he splits his time between Cambridge and London, Ontario, where his wife, Francine McKenzie, is a professor of international relations at the University of Western Ontario. Szonyi was appointed director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies in 2015.

Books

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 * (Chinese edition published by National Taiwan University Press, 2016)
 * (Chinese edition published by National Taiwan University Press, 2016)
 * (Chinese edition published by National Taiwan University Press, 2016)