Gui Tao is currently Associate Professor at the Institute for Chinese Ancient Legal Documents, China University of Political Science and Law. He received his Ph.D. degree in history from Renmin University of China in 2013，and worked as postdoctoral fellow in Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences between July 2013 and July 2015. His research and teaching interests include the law and political thought in late Imperial China, international order in historical East Asia, as well as statecraft and society.