Cynthia Brokaw, Chen Family Professor of China Studies and Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Brown University, is a historian of the early modern Chinese book, with a particular interest in the radical expansion in book production and in the reading public in Ming and Qing China. She is the author of Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007) and has co-edited Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 2005), with Kai-wing Chow; From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008 (Brill, 2010), with Christopher Reed; The History of the Book in East Asia (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013), with Peter Kornicki; and “Publishing for Daily Life in Early Modern East Asia,” Lingua Franca 6 (2020), with Joan Judge.