Yuhua Wang

Yuhua Wang (Chinese: 王裕华) is a Chinese-American political scientist who researches comparative politics, taking the history of China as a sample to explore the significance of the construction of "state capacity" for state and social development. His 2022 book, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China, won the Lubbert Best Book Award in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association. Currently, he is the Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University whose research focuses on the politics of state-building. Wang was named a Harvard College Professor in 2025. Provided by Wikipedia