Simon Sihang Luo

Postdoctoral Associate

Stanford Civics Initiative
Stanford University

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Website: Personal / faculty page

Biography

Simon Sihang Luo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Civics Initiative. His current book project investigates the critical relationship between memories, emotions, and possibilities of democracy and democratization by taking the intellectual debates in post-Cultural Revolution China (1976-now) as a case study. His research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary political thought, comparative political theory, democratic theory, Marxism, critical theory, political emotions, and political memories.

Selected publications

Article · 2024 Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory American Political Science Review Brings Wang Hui's Maoist theory of the party into debates on reviving political parties. Presented at AGPT 2022
Article · 2023 Historical memory, democratic citizenship, and political theory: Reconstructing a historical method in Judith Shklar’s writings European Journal of Political Theory Reconstructs Judith Shklar's historical method and its link to democratic citizenship.
Article · 2023 The Liberalism of Fear in China: Hu Ping and the Uses of Fear and Memory in Contemporary Chinese Liberalism Global Intellectual History

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