Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Walter Scheidel, Dickason Professor of Humanities and professor of classics, Stanford University; co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (2010) and editor, Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (2009); "The Rise and Demise of Universal Empire: Rome, Europe, and China" and Mark Edward Lewis, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture, Stanford University; author, China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (2009) and China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (2009); "China: From Empire to Nation"