While critiquing the dominance of the Western tradition in the discipline of political theory,
recent methodological discussions in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) fail to move …

The growing prominence of comparative political theory has inspired extensive and fruitful
methodological reflection, raising important questions about the procedures that political …

In recent decades, the trope that classical Muslim thinkers anticipated or influenced modern
European thought has provided an easy endorsement of their contemporary relevance. This …

At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations
of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a …

What is the relationship between interpretive methods and decolonizing projects?
Decolonial thinkers often invoke pre-colonial traditions in their efforts to fashion “national …

This essay explores the interlocking roles of science and religion in Sino-Western
exchanges by examining China's encounter with Jesuit mathematics in the seventeenth and …

In the mid-nineteenth century, the missionaries of the London Missionary Society founded
the journal Liuhe congtan 六合叢談. Its varied contents included a recurring column titled …

The emerging field of “comparative political theory” has examined political thought from
China, India, and the Islamic world, but has hitherto overlooked Vietnam. It turns out that …

Honorable Mention, 2022 Sharon Harris Book Award presented by the University of
Connecticut Humanities Institute Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of …

This article explores the changing historical referents that Qing officials used in arguing for
the extension of direct governance to the empire's frontier regions from the 1870s to the …