Yuhua Wang

王裕華

Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University

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Yuhua Wang (王裕華) 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, Comparative Politics, and the China Quarterly . Yuhua received his B.A. from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Research interests: Chinese Politics

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Other Publications

  • Charles Chang and Yuhua Wang. 2024. “The Reach of the State.” Comparative Political Studies 57(8): 1243-1275. 
  • Dincecco, Mark, and Yuhua Wang. 2024. “State Capacity in Historical Political Economy.” In Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, Jeff Jenkins and Jared Rubin, eds., Oxford University Press. 
  • Hao Chen, Saul Wilson, Changxin Patrick Xu, Cheng Cheng, and Yuhua Wang. 2024. “Dethroning the Mao-era Elite, Clearing the Way for Reform.” The China Quarterly 258: 346–366. 
  • Pamela J. Clouser McCann, Charles R. Shipan, and Yuhua Wang. 2023. “Measuring the Legislative Design of Judicial Review of Agency Actions.” Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 39(1): 123-159. 
  • Yuhua Wang. 2022. “Blood Is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China.” American Political Science Review 116 (3): 896-910. 
  • Yuhua Wang and Bruce Dickson. 2022. “How Corruption Investigations Undermine Regime Support: Evidence from China.” Political Science Research and Methods 10(1): 33-48. 
  • Yuhua Wang. 2021. “State-in-Society 2.0: Toward Fourth-Generation Theories of the State.” Comparative Politics 54(1): 175-198. 
  • Yuhua Wang. 2021. “ The Political Legacy of Violence during China’s Cultural Revolution” British Journal of Political Science 51 (2): 463-487. 
  • M. Taylor Fravel, Melanie Manion, and Yuhua Wang. 2021. “A “China in the World” Paradigm for Scholarship.” Studies in Comparative International Development 56 (1): 1-17. 
  • Yuhua Wang. 2018. “Relative Capture: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Chinese Judiciary.” Comparative Political Studies 51 (8): 1012-1041. 
  • Yuhua Wang. 2018. “Can the Chinese Communist Party Learn from Chinese Emperors?” In The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power, Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi, eds., Harvard University Press. 
  • Mark Dincecco and Yuhua Wang. 2018. “Violent Conflict and Political Development over the Long Run: China versus Europe.”  Annual Review of Political Science 21: 341-358.  
  • Yuhua Wang. 2017. “Betting on a Princeling.” Studies in Comparative International Development 52 (4): 395-415. 
  • Yuhua Wang. 2016. “Beyond Local Protectionism: China’s State-Business Relations in the Last Two Decades.” The China Quarterly 226:  319-341. 
  • Yuhua Wang and Carl Minzner. 2015. “The Rise of the Chinese Security State.” The China Quarterly 222: 339-359.  
  • Yuhua Wang. 2015. “Politically Connected Polluters under Smog.” Business & Politics 17(1): 97-124. 
  • Yuhua Wang. 2014. “Empowering the Police: How the Chinese Communist Party Manages Its Coercive Leaders.” The China Quarterly 219: 625-648.  
  • Yuhua Wang. 2014. “Institutions and Bribery in an Authoritarian State.” Studies in Comparative International Development 49(2): 217-241. 
  • Yuhua Wang. 2014. “Coercive Capacity and the Durability of the Chinese Communist State.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 47(1): 13-25.  
  • Yuhua Wang. 2013. “Court Funding and Judicial Corruption in China.” The China Journal 69: 43-63. 

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