Andres Rodriguez

I am a specialist in China’s Republican Period (1912-1949) with a particular interest in China's borderland regions in the southwest.

My research has taken me to archives around the world revealing the complex interaction of global forces that began to shape these remote regions of China in the early twentieth century. By bringing out the lives of Christian missionaries, anthropologists, militarists and Chinese youth working in the region I seek to understand how their experiences in the field shaped their understanding of China's modern frontier

I am now beginning to put together a project that seeks to understand the nature of Chinese internationalism originating from the experience of World War Two and its impact on the Chinese contribution to the foundation of UNESCO among others. I am particularly interested in tracing the networks and academic communities that emerged out of Sino-Western cooperation during World War Two by focusing on the role played by particular individuals, both Chinese and Western.