Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Assistant Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Recent Publications
Kim-Leffingwell, S., & Yang, Y. (2026). Violence and Bias: The Political Legacy of Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia. Comparative Politics, 58(3), 313-338. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041525X17653116559120
Yang, Y., Lu, L., Williams, M., & Jia, X. (2025). Connect First, then Suppress: Chinese vs. Western Communication Development Projects and Internet Freedom. Studies In Comparative International Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-025-09471-5
Yang, Y. (2025). The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion Pensions, Labor Informalization, and Labor Mobility in China. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197823514.001.0001
Eun Kim, S., Shin, A. J., & Yang, Y. (2024). The Usual Suspect? Attitudes towards Immigration during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 17(2), 272-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2022.2046686
Gong, D. Y., Kim-Leffingwell, S., Shen, S., & Yang, Y. (2024). Money backfires: How Chinese investment fuels anti-China protests abroad. World Development, 178, Article 106566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106566