Zhu Hu is the Dean of the School of History of Renmin University of China, and Editorial Board Member of The Qing History Journal. He is mainly engaged in the study of the history of disasters in the Qing Dynasty, modern social and economic history, and the history of the late Qing Dynasty. He has presided and participated in a number of major projects of the National Philosophy and Social Science Project and of the Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base of the Ministry of Education. His representative works include Local Mobility and Its Transcendence: Late Qing Relief and the Metabolism of Modern China (2006) and MinBaoWuYu: Modern Chinese Relief, 1876-1912 (2012), etc. His representative publications include From Interlude to Prelude: Famine Relief in Hejian Prefecture and Overcoming a Crisis in Sheng Xuanhuai's Early Self-strengthening Career, From Relief Affairs to Western Affairs: the Rise of Gentry-Merchants of the Jiangnan Region in the Western-style Enterprises, etc.