Tak-Wing Ngo is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau, and the IIAS Professor of Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has held visiting positions in the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Wassenaar), Waseda University (Tokyo), Tsinghua University (Beijing), and Academia Sinica (Taipei). He was a Commonwealth Scholar in the United Kingdom and a Sir Edward Youde Fellow in Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Coordinating Committee for Scientific and Education Exchanges with China at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is responsibl...