
Shoufu Yin is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. His primary expertise lies in the intellectual and political cultures of China and Inner Asia from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. Simultaneously, his interests extend to the global histories of political thought and imagination. He is currently finalizing two book manuscripts:
- The China That Could Have Been: A Transcultural History of Rhetoric and Political Thought, 1100–1600
- 1156 CE, China’s Referendum
He has been working on a third monograph-length project with the tentative title of
- Translingual Historiography: the Manchu Ming History and a Global Intellectual History of the Seventeenth Century
His recent articles have appeared (or are forthcoming) in the American Political Science Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, History of Political Thought, Journal of Asian Studies, T’oung Pao, Journal of Chinese History, Korean Studies, and other places. He co-edits Between the People and the State: Chinese Statecraft from Early Ming to Xi Jinping, a forthcoming volume, and “Agency, Democracy, and China: The Political Philosophy of Jiwei Ci,” a special issue with Comparative Political Theory.