Authors

Bill Figueroa

Bill Figueroa is a PhD student in History at University of Pennsylvania, where he just successfully defended his thesis “China and the Iranian Left: Transnational Networks of Social, Cultural, and Ideological Exchange, 1905-1979.” His research is based on primary sources in both Chinese and Persian. He tweets about history and Sino-Iranian @IranChinaGuy. 

ARTICLES BY Bill Figueroa

  • A "$400 billion" China-Iran Deal? The View from History

    A "$400 billion" China-Iran Deal? The View from History

    Most analyses of Sino-Iranian relations lack precisely this sort of historical perspective, in part because the history of Sino-Iranian relations is not widely known. In order to provide some much-needed context, I will next explore the history of modern Sino-Iranian relations, from the beginnin..