Qiang Zhang

Qiang Zhang is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (selected by the European Commission and funded by the UKRI Guarantee) from the University of Nottingham, where he also held a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

His research has focused on the political use of history in China and the evolving historiography of modern China. He has been studying the surprising phenomenon known as ‘Republican fever’ – the widespread nostalgia for pre-communist China in the post-Mao era. At Harvard, he will evaluate the Chinese Communist Party’s decades-old campaign against ‘historical nihilism’, i.e. counter-memories which deviate from the regime’s orthodox view of history.

Qiang holds a DPhil in Politics from Oxford University and an MSt in International Relations from Cambridge University. Prior to academia, he worked as a BBC journalist for over a decade, reporting on Chinese political developments and analyzing PRC media content.