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. Delving into sources in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Persian, and various European languages, he endeavors to show how previously unknown and marginalized thinkers had contributed to important themes in theory and philosophy. He is currently finalizing two book manuscripts: 

• The China That Could Have Been: Sinitic Rhetoric and the Search for a Better World, 1100–1600 (under external review)

• A Foundation of Modern Democratic Thought: From Weibo to Tongchuanfu, 700–1200 (completed, contacting publisher)

In addition, he has been working on a third monograph-length project with the tentative title of 

• The Great Intellectual Enterprise: The Manchu-language Historiography in the Seventeenth-century Globe

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.

• Interview with the Journal of the History of Ideas, December 2022 

• Interview with UBC, July 2021

• Podcast with Brendan Mackie, on Chinese political culture

• PhD in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2021

• MRes in History, King's College London, 2014

• MA in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2012

• BA in Philosophy, University of Hong Kong, 2009

• Diplôme d'Etudes Universitaires Françaises, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III, 2008

• Foundation year (non-degree), Fudan University, 2006