Meng Zhang

ZHANG (“jong”) is the surname and Meng (“mong”) is the given name.

I am a historian of late imperial and modern China, and my scholarship focuses on issues of economic and environmental transformation, the political economy of empire, and transregional connections in the rise of global capitalism. I approach the study of economic life in the human past from both the top down and the bottom up to reveal the often-unexpected interplay between grand changes in national policies, international relations, and global market and locally contextualized choices and practices by individuals, households, enterprises, and grass-roots organizations. My research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Luce/ACLS program in China Studies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Association for Asian Studies.