KAMAL SHEEL

Kamal Sheel did his Ph.D. in Chinese history and studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA and learned Chinese language at the National Taiwan University and Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan. He has taught in Panjab University, Chandigarh and Banaras Hindu University. He has also been Fellow and Visiting Faculty in USA (Yale and Wisconsin), Taiwan (Academia Sinica), Denmark (Copenhagen), China (Peking and Nanjing) and Singapore (National University), India (IIT- BHU, Somaiyya and Sikkim). His area of interest is Social and Intellectual History of Modern China and India-China Interactions. His major publications are Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectual of China (Princeton 1989 & 2015), and Thirteen Months in China (Oxford 2017) jointly with Anand Yang and Ranjana Sheel. His forthcoming work is an annotated translation of Kang Youwei’s travelogue to India. He is currently an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies.