Dr Qiang Zhang (Researcher), University of Nottingham/Harvard Kennedy School 

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Qiang Zhang is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (funded by UKRI) jointly hosted by Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Nottingham. 

He has been studying the political use of history in China and the evolving historiography of modern China. His research has appeared in The China Quarterly, China Information, and The Pacific Review. He has also published a co-authored book, and is completing a new book manuscript about 'Republican fever' - the widespread nostalgia for pre-communist China in the post-Mao era. 

Dr. Zhang holds a DPhil from Oxford University and an MSt from Cambridge University. Prior to academia, he worked as a BBC journalist for over a decade. 

Professor Jeremy E. Taylor (PI), University of Nottingham

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Jeremy Taylor is Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham. He works on the cultural, social and political history of the Chinese-speaking world, with his work appearing in over 30 different journals. He has written two monographs, including Iconographies of Occupation (Hawaii, 2021), and has edited four scholarly volumes including, most recently, Chineseness and the Cold War (Routledge 2022) with Lanjun Xu. 

Professor Taylor is a graduate of the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.