Yuan Wang is an assistant professor of international relations at Duke Kunshan University. Her research interests include global China, African politics, and the comparative political economy of development. Her book project (under contract with Oxford University Press) investigates why Chinese-financed and -constructed projects develop into starkly different trajectories in different African countries, and her work is featured in Comparative Politics and World Development. Before Duke Kunshan, she was a fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program and at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She received her DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. She also previously served in the China office of the United Nations Development Program and at the Sino-Africa Centre of Excellence Foundation in its Nairobi office.