Kenneth Pomeranz este profesor de istorie la University of California, Irvine, avind ca domeniu de specialitate istoria Chinei moderne. De acelasi autor: The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937 (1993; volumul a primit John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History din partea American History Association in 1994), The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the present (in colaborare cu Steven Topik, 2005).