is an independent scholar of Chinese history and culture living and working in Shanghai. He has taught Chinese history for the University of Puget Sound, University of New South Wales, Dartmouth College, and is currently teaching courses for New York University's study abroad program at East China Normal University.  

Andrew Field is the author of “Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954” (2010). The book examines issues of colonialism and modernity, urban space, sociability, sexuality and modern Chinese national identity formation in a tumultuous era of war and revolution.

He was born in Ann Arbor Michigan, and graduated from Columbia University in 2001 with a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Andrew has joined the Shanghai Flaneur pool of experts in October 2011 and is offering walks, talks and study tours on history, culture and metropolitan themes. Some of his special topics and passions include music, jazz and Chinese Indie Rock in particular.