My principal interests are maritime history and the ways that flows of trade, people, and goods have shaped life in China and East Asia from the early-modern period to the present. My first book project, called Sealords Live in Vain, tells the story of how the maritime province of Fujian in southeast China was transformed by trade and piracy into an outlaw frontier in the 17th century. In future projects, I hope to examine topics such as population mobility in Chinese history and also the rise of robotics and cybernetics in East Asia.
