Dr Joel Wing-Lun is a Lecturer in History and Asian Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. His current book project, Negotiating Empire on China’s Miao Frontier, explores how families and communities in southeast Guizhou navigated imperial expansion from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. Joel holds a BA from the University of Sydney and a PhD in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. He has been a visiting research student at Peking University, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, and the Australian National University, and a visiting fellow at Academia Sinica, Taipei. He is the translator of The Chinese Empire in Local Society: Ming Military Institutions and their Legacies (Routledge, 2020).