Wan-Ping Lin

Wan-Ping Lin is a Visiting Fellow at LSE's Department of International Relations. She holds a PhD in Political Science from National Taiwan University (NTU) and is affiliated with the Stockholm China Center and the Institute for Security and Development Policy. Her research focuses on reimagining post-Westphalian world politics through Sinophone, Confucian, and Daoist frameworks, particularly their application to Chinese foreign policy and regional relations. She has published a monograph on Qin Yaqing's relational theory and an article analyzing Hong Kong's governance through Daoist perspectives. Previously, she served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Academia Sinica in Taipei and a visiting researcher at Leiden University.

Education: PhD in Political Science, NTU; taught courses at NTU and Soochow University. Research interests include Chinese IR theories, modern Chinese diplomacy, and postcolonial dynamics in East Asia. Currently developing projects on Confucian/Daoist IR theories' methodological and ethical relevance.

Labs/Teams: Associated with LSE's Theory/Area/History Research Cluster.