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Yi Lu

Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College at Harvard University

About me

Yi Lu is a historian of modern China. His teaching and research interests focus on the history of information, material culture, and digital humanities. His work explores how information technologies — from paper archives to AI tools — change what knowledge is, how it is made and used, and to whom it belongs. More specifically, he focuses on China’s 20th century, during which propaganda, censorship, and secrecy served as key instruments of bureaucratic governance and social control.

Courses and Programs taught by Yi Lu