Hilde De Weerdt,
professor of Chinese History at Leiden Univerisity. Her
research mainly focus on how social networks shape China’s politics. Her works
include Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service
Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1276) (Harvard University
Asia Center, 2007; Information, Territory, and Networks: The
Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China (Harvard University
Asia Center, 2015), Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of
Print—China,
Tenth-Fourteenth Centuries (Brill, 2011) .