Hilde de Weerdt

Hilde De Weerdt is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University. She authored an intellectual history of the civil service examinations ( Competition over Content , 2007) and a monograph on the question of how the ideal of a unified territorial state took hold in Chinese society ( Information, Territory, and Networks , 2015). She has been involved in several comparative and global historical projects.

Hilde De Weerdt is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University. She authored an intellectual history of the civil service examinations ( Competition over Content , 2007) and a monograph on the question of how the ideal of a unified territorial state took hold in Chinese society ( Information, Territory, and Networks , 2015). She has been involved in several comparative and global historical projects. See less