Ching-Huan Kuo

MIRS-Chinese Studies Student

huankuo@umich.edu

MIRS Students; Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Education/Degree:

BA, Political Science, National Taiwan University, 2023

About

Ching-Huan Kuo received a BA from National Taiwan University in political science and has worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. Ching-Huan’s research interests lie in the areas of cultural and comparative-historical sociology. His main areas of focus are modern and contemporary China and Taiwan. He is currently working on a project on eventful transitions to democracy and their institutional consequences, paying special attention to the inclusivity of founding nationalisms and their regime effects. In a different vein, he is also interested in empire- building and center-periphery symbolic struggles in East Asia.