John Delury is a historian of modern China, professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, and starting this fall will be Tsao Family Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Along with Orville Schell, he is the author of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century (2013), which provides biographical sketches of the most important historical Chinese leaders and thinkers. In October, he published Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert Wa