Yuhua Wang is the Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Tying the Autocrat’s Hands: The Rise of the Rule of Law in China (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (Princeton University Press, 2022). His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Comparative Politics. Yuhua received his B.A. from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Contact
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Subfields
Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Bureaucracy | Institutions | Judiciary and Public Law | Political Economy & Development | Political Geography | State-Society Relations
Research Methods
Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
China | Asia