Xu Guoqi received Ph.D in history from Harvard University and is currently professor of History
at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Xu is expert of Asia and the First World War,
international history of modern China, and China’s relations with the world. His most recent
works include: Chinese and Americans: A Shared History (Harvard University Press, 2014,
Chinese edition will be published by Guangxi Normal University Press, forthcoming), Strangers
on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Harvard University Press, February
2011; Chinese edition was published by Shanghai People’s Press, summer 2014), Olympic
Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 (Harvard University Press, 2008), and China and the
Great War: China’s Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization (Cambridge,
UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 2011) (Chinese edition by Shanghai
Sanlian Shudian, 2008 and 2013). He is currently working on a volume titled Asia and the Great
War: a shared journey (under contract for Oxford University Press).