Manuel Perez-Garcia
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Manuel Perez-Garcia (PhD.) is Tenured Associate Professor at the Department of History, School of Humanities, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. He is Principal Investigator of GECEM Project funded by the ERC (European Research Council)-Starting Grant / Horizon 2020, www.gecem.eu. Founder and director of the Global History Network in China (GHN). He is specialized in Digital Humanities, development of databases, Big Data analysis applied to global (economic) history, and comparisons between Qing China and early modern Europe. He worked at Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, and visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and British Columbia University, among others. He is editor-in-chief of the Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History www.palgrave.com/de/series/15711. Author of the book Vicarious Consumers (Routledge, 2013), Global History with Chinese Characteristics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Blood, Land and Power (Wales University Press, 2021). He has published many articles in SSCI and AHCI journals.
