Charles Argon

Charles Argon is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Princeton University. His dissertation is a history of baojia, a system of community policing, in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It examines how ideas and practices of social control evolved in response to socioeconomic change, particularly in the long eighteenth century. More broadly, Charles is interested in Chinese political culture, the political economy of empire, non-Western political ideas, and the methods of global intellectual history. He holds master’s degrees from Princeton and Tsinghua Universities and was a 2017 Fulbright Scholar.