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About Mark Baker
Mark Baker is lecturer (assistant professor) in East Asian history at the University of Manchester, UK. His focus is on modern China, including the history of war and urban history (the subject of his book Pivot of China: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674293816).NBN Episodes hosted by Mark:
June 27, 2026
Urban Revolution
During the Great Leap Forward (1958-62), the collectivization of the Chinese countryside had catastrophic results, but how did this short-lived politi…
November 15, 2025
Grains of Conflict
How did China’s Nationalists feed their armies during the long war against Japan? In her new book, Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’…
October 5, 2025
Domination and Mobilization
How and why did the Chinese Communist Party rise to power in the 1940s at the expense of its Nationalist (KMT) rival? In his new book, Domination and …
April 5, 2025
Transpatial Modernity
Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930) (Harvard Asia Center, 2024) offers the first detailed account of …
October 9, 2024
The Tormented Alliance
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (UNC Press, 2022) explores the wartime partnership between China an…