Wan-Ping holds a PhD in political science from National Taiwan University (NTU) and serves as an associated research fellow at Stockholm China Center, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden. During her time as a PhD candidate at NTU, she had taught Modern Chinese Diplomatic History at Soochow University and Critical Approaches to World Politics: An Introduction at NTU.

Wan-Ping’s research interests include Sinophone as well as Chinese International Relations (IR) theories, Chinese international thoughts, and Confucian/Daoist political thoughts in re-imagining post-Westphalian world politics, particularly how do these theoretical efforts contribute to the empirical research of the discipline and transform the practice of IR broadly speaking. In these respects, she published a monograph based on her PhD dissertation, Sinicization as method: Qin Yaqing’s intellectual journey from the Chinese school of International Relations to a Relational Theory of World Politics (published in Traditional Chinese) in 2023. And her peer-reviewed article, Indefinite healing: China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula over Hong Kong from a Daoist–Zhongyi perspective, was published in Third World Quarterly in 2024.

Before joining LSE, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Political Thought, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan as well as a visiting doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Hague, The Netherlands.

During her time as Visiting Fellow at LSE, she will be working on several articles relating to the worlding and world-making of Confucian and Daoist IR theories and their political, ethical, theoretical, and methodological relevance and significance to the seeing, doing, and being in IR.

Research Cluster affliation

Theory/Area/History Research Cluster