Yidi Wu is the O’Briant Developing Professor and Associate Professor of History at Elon University. Her first book, Student Activism Across Borders: China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s, is published by Cambridge University Press. She has written journal articles for Twentieth-Century China, PRC History Review, and Education About Asia. Her research has been supported by the National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association for Asian Studies, among others. She is a Public Intellectuals Program fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations.

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.