Karl Gerth is Professor of History and Hsiu Endowed Chair in Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is also the author of As China Goes, So Goes the World, which explores whether Chinese consumers can rescue the economy without creating even deeper global problems and China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation, a history of economic nationalism in early twentieth-century China. After receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 2000, he taught at Oxford University until his move to UCSD in 2013.