Shellen Xiao Wu is associate professor and the L.H. Gipson Chair in Transnational History at Lehigh University. Her first book, Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920 was published with Stanford University Press in 2015. Her second book, Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China, also with Stanford University Press came out in September 2023.
