Chun Xu

Chun Xu is a historian specializing in late imperial China, currently affiliated with the University of Tübingen as a Researcher. His work examines how bureaucratic institutions in the Song to Ming dynasties produced, processed, and utilized data, with a focus on the strategic generation of non-knowledge and institutional ignorance in administrative practices.

• Education: PhD from Heidelberg University (2018).
• Prior Affiliation: Research Scholar (2020–2024) and Postdoctoral Researcher (2018–2020) at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

His research bridges historical analysis with institutional studies, emphasizing the role of data and ignorance in imperial statecraft. Contact: mail@xuchun.work.