Anlin Ku Lecture Series: Michael Szonyi - "How to Dodge the Draft and Succeed as a Pirate in the Ming Dynasty"

Michael Szonyi is Professor of Chinese History and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is a social historian of late imperial and modern China. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China, from the Ming dynasty to the twenty-first century, using a combination of traditional textual sources and ethnographic-style fieldwork.