I am interested in comparisons between early China and the Mediterranean civilizations, especially how the regional forms of Late Antiquity became globalized or came to be attested by “foreign” contexts. My research also focuses on how to experimentally apply modern theoretical tools and constructs to interpret the premodern world, in the realms of philosophy, politics, and psychology.

“Words Disenchanted, Words Reenchanted: Local Elite Propaganda and the Internal Collapse of Ancient Imperium, the Qing-Xu-Yan 青-徐-兗 Area and the Region of Gaul”