Thomas Chan is an assistant professor of history at Indiana University, USA. His interdisciplinary work focuses on the intertwined histories of medicine, cultural production, political violence, and state formation in modern China. He has special interests in how understandings of drugs, violence, and anti-addiction science have evolved historically through interchange between the United States and China. Thematically, he is interested in how governments use science and culture to turn marginalized people into expendable populations and persuade people to participate in intra-communal violence. His broader research interests also include histories of science and medicine, Sinophone films, and a history of the Taikoo sugar refinery and its efforts to bridge Hong Kong with spaces across China and the Pacific basin. Thomas received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, USA.