I am a political theorist and intellectual historian with research interests in twentieth-century and postcolonial political thought. I specialize in mid-twentieth-century Southeast Asia; race and ethnicity; international law and politics in the global cold war; and theories of capitalism and development. I am writing a dissertation on the decline of the global anti-imperial moment in 1950s–60s Malaya/Malaysia/Singapore; Indonesia; and Vietnam, a decline I theorize as a problem of counterrevolutionary political founding. I received my B.A. (Hons) from the University of Cambridge in 2020 and held the Harold Laski Fellowship at Harvard in 2020–2021. At Harvard, I am a Graduate Student Associate at the Asia Center and a Graduate Student Affiliate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Contact
yiningchang@g.harvard.edu
My Website
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Subfields
Political Thought and its History | International Relations
Academic Interests
Democracy | Ethics | International Organizations | Modern and Contemporary Political Thought | Political Economy & Development | Race & Ethnicity
Research Methods
Historical Methods | Normative Political Thought
Geographic Regions of Study
Asia