Yuanxin Wang
Political Theory, Comparative Politics
PhD Student
University of Florida
Yuanxin Wang is a Ph. D Candidate in Political Science at the University of Florida, with concentration on political theory and comparative politics. My research focuses on evolutionism, imperialism, and racism in transnational contexts. My dissertation, Darwin Goes East: Evolutionism and Imperialism in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, explores the circulation and transformation of social Darwinian ideas between England and China and their entanglement with imperialism, racism, and revolution at the turn of the twentieth century. I am also interested in the discourse of race in modern Chinese political thought.