Professor Yuhua Wang has had quite the year with awards! Professor Wang’s book The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development is a co-winner of the Gregory Luebbert Best Book Prize in Comparative Politics, awarded by the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2023. The Luebbert Book Award is given for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.
At Harvard, Yuhua has been recognized with the Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship from FAS. This prize fellowship, given annually to a select few faculty, was awarded to Yuhua in recognition of his outstanding contributions to his field, including the 2022 publication of his book The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development.
In addition to the awards described above, Yuhua’s APSR article “Blood Is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China” received Honorable Mention for the Political Ties Award, awarded by the Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association, 2023.
Please join the Department on congratulating Yuhua on these richly deserved accolades.