Yi Ning Chang

Yi Ning Chang is an Early-Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. She is a political theorist and intellectual historian whose work examines the relationship between democratic thought and the postcolonial state. She has wider interests in the history of political, economic, and social thought. Yi Ning is at work on a book project titled Reinventing Democracy, which traces the intellectual origins of the postcolonial state in Southeast Asia and shows how democratic thought supported the rise of not very democratic postcolonial states. She received her BA from Cambridge and her MA and PhD from Harvard University.