Xiaolin Duan is Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on medieval and early modern China and trans-Pacific exchange. She is the author of The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty (2020) and An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade (2022). Her recent publications include studies of the 17th-century crisis, Zhangzhou migrants in Manila, local food and tea culture, and late-Ming Chinese visual culture.