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An Interview with Michael Szonyi: Ming Dynasty, The Art of

Michael A. Szonyi, Frank Wen-xiung Wu Professor of Chinese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, is a scholar of late imperial Chinese history. He specializes in using historical anthropology and fieldwork to study the social history of China's southeastern coast. After researching the history of the military households of the Ming dynasty, he published The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China.