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Xiaoqun Xu is a Professor of History at Christopher Newport University (CNU), affiliated with the Honors Program and the Department of History. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History from Columbia University (1993), along with advanced degrees from institutions such as the University of Akron and East China Normal University. His research focuses on legal-judicial, social, and cultural history of modern China, with a particular emphasis on taxation, state-building, and legal systems.
Teaching includes seventeen courses at CNU, covering Chinese and East Asian history, World History surveys, and Historiography. Notable publications include Heaven Has Eyes: A History of Chinese Law (2020) and Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century China (2008). He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and other academic honors.
His work explores intersections of law, society, and state structures, with recent contributions analyzing Qing taxation practices and Republican-era legal reforms. Xu has held faculty positions at Francis Marion University (1993–2004) before joining CNU in 2004, where he continues to advance scholarship on modern China’s legal and socio-economic transformations.
