Mark C. Elliott is the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of History at Harvard University. An authority on post-1600 China, he is a pioneer of the “New Qing History,” an approach emphasizing the imprint of Inner Asian traditions upon China’s last imperial state and its modern successors. Since 2015, he has been Harvard’s Vice Provost for International Affairs.