Yiyang Zhuge is a political theorist, political columnist, and a translator of German and Greek philosophical texts. She is an instructor at Brandeis University, and a PhD Candidate at Boston College. 

Yiyang is a major translator of Hannah Arendt into Chinese. She has translated The Human Condition, Life of the Mind, Men in Dark Times, collected poetry, Die verborgene Tradition, and Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess. She has given numerous lectures and published numerous public-facing articles on Arendt. 

Yiyang published the first Greek-to-Chinese translation of Plutarch's Moralia, a best-selling philosophy book in 2025. 

She runs Princeton University Press's Political Philosophy Book Club, where she interviews important Western academics for the Chinese audience. 

Yiyang is a public intellectual in China. She reports on American higher ed monthly at print magazine Caixin Weekly. She is a political commenter on Hong Kong's Phoenix TV (here and here). She hosts great books programs on vistopia and has contributed essays on Machiavelli, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Arendt at vistopia. She hosts the most popular Mandarin political philosophy podcast "Monologues of a Committed Observer" with 1m+ subscribers. She was commissioned to write on US and European politics at Tencent News (here; here; here; here). Yiyang's profile as a rising scholar connecting China to the Western Tradition has been featured on all major Chinese print journals, including People's Daily, The Beijing News, The Paper, Southern Weekly, Modern Weekly, VOGUE China. She is on the cover of the upcoming September issue of Esquire and has a special feature on Harpers Bazaar.