Enze Han has written an outstanding book on the unintended consequences of actions by the Chinese state and non-state actors in Southeast Asia. An important contribution to a growing demand for assessments that center local actors and agency in shaping China's external footprint.
Enze Han is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia and Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China. During 2015-2016, he was a Friends Founders' Circle Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, United States. He was also the Distinguished Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia by the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia in 2021.