Ho-fung Hung is the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He researches global political economy, protest, nation-state formation, and East Asian development, with a recent focus on money, politics, and empires. He is the author of Protest with Chinese Characteristics (Columbia University Press, 2011), The China Boom (Columbia University Press, 2015), City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Clash of Empires: From ‘Chimerica’ to the ‘New Cold War’ (Cambridge University Press, 2022).