Hilde De WeerdtHilde De Weerdt is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University. She has authored and edited books on Chinese political culture and intellectual history including Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinationsin Imperial China (1127-1276) (2007), Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China (2015), Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600 (2020), and Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print - China, Tenth-Fourteenth Centuries (2014). Read More Read Less