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Emily Baum

Emily Baum is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 2018). She is currently completing two books: Needled: The Americanization of Acupuncture, and an edited volume (with Albert Wu), Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History.