Måns Ahlstedt ÅBERG
Lecturer
Additional Role
Dr. Måns Ahlstedt Åberg specializes in the history of sinology and Sino-Western interaction. He was educated at Lund University in Sweden, where he graduated with an MA in history in 2019. Thereafter, he moved to Hong Kong and received his PhD from The University of Hong Kong in July 2025. His doctoral dissertation examines some of the first Chinese visitors to Europe and their contributions to early sinology between ca 1650 and 1830. He has also studied the modern history of eugenics and race science in Sweden, a subject on which he published his first book in 2022.
Books
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BOOK AWARDS
COURSES TAUGHT
- HIST2079: Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
- HIST2230: Early Modern Atlantic Worlds, c. 1500-1800
- GLAS7061: The Atlantic: Columbus to NATO
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
- Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), 2020-2024
EXTERNAL AFFILIATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Silent travellers? Native Chinese in Europe as agents of Sino-European interaction, 1650–1830 (PhD diss., The University of Hong Kong, 2025).
“The first Chinese music heard in Europe: Instruments and musicians in the study of Chinese music in Europe during the long 18th century,” Early Music 53, no. 3 (2025): 270–283.
“‘My good friend the China-man’: Afock – den förste kinesen i Sverige (1786)” [“My good friend the China-man”: Afock – the first Chinese in Sweden (1786)], Personhistorisk tidskrift 119, no. 1 (2023): 1–32.
Frivilliga rasbiologer: Interaktionen och kunskapscirkulationen mellan rasbiologiska institutet och allmänheten under 1920- och 30-talet [Voluntary Eugenicists: The Interaction and Circulation of Knowledge between the Institute for Race Biology and the Swedish General Public during the 1920s and 1930s] (Möklinta: Gidlunds förlag, 2022).
“Amateur Eugenics: The ‘Great-Mother in Dalecarlia’ Genealogy Project and the Collaboration Between the Swedish Institute for Race Biology and the General Public, 1930–1935,” History of Intellectual Culture 1 (2022): 123–146.