Michelle T. King

Michelle T. King is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specializes in modern Chinese gender and food history. She is the author of Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food (2024), Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (2014), editor of Culinary Nationalism in Asia (2019), and co-editor of the forthcoming Modern Chinese Foodways. A 2020-21 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, she lives in Chapel Hill with her family.