Pamela Kyle Crossley

Pamela Kyle Crossley is a historian of the Qing empire, Central Asia, and global history, whose books have been translated into Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Portuguese and Polish. In Chinese and modern history she has pursued the questions of origins of modern identities, particularly their relationship to institutions of imperial rule in the early modern period, ideas introduced her award-winning book A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. Her history of China since 1800, The Wobbling Pivot, has been noted for its original interpretations of modern Chinese history as the product, to large degree, of changing relations between the central government and coherent structures of local management. Her forthcoming book on Qing history is China’s Global Empire: The Qing, 1636-1912 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020). In global history, she is author of Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World (2019) and the short study of narrative strategies in global history, What Is Global History?, as well as co-author of the best-selling textbook, The Earth and its Peoples, and of Global Society: The World since 1900. She is Collis professor of history at Dartmouth College.