Professor at Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences – affiliated with the Department of History in School of Humanities
Chinese (Beijing)
Nianshen Song is professor of the Tsinghua Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Department of History, School of Humanities. His research and teaching focus on late imperial and modern China, with special interest in China’s ethnic frontiers, East Asian trans-regional networks, historical geography, urban studies, and historical geography. Dr. Song is the author of several monographies, including: Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919, Zhizao Yazhou (Mapping Asia) and Faxian Dongya (Discovering East Asia). His journal articles have appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of Asian Studies, Inner Asia, Geopolitics, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Research, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Dushu, Kaifang shidai, Xinshixue, among others.
