Wang Shaoguang
Professor Wang Shaoguang | |
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王绍光 | |
Wang Shaoguang in a 2013 UN University interview | |
| Born | 1954 (age 70–71) Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Peking University (LL.B., 1982) Cornell University (Ph.D., 1990) |
| Thesis | Failure of Charisma: The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan |
| Influences | Carl Schmitt |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
| School or tradition | Chinese New Left |
| Institutions | Yale University (1990–2000) Chinese University of Hong Kong (1999–present) |
| Movements in contemporary |
| Chinese political thought |
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Wang Shaoguang (born 1954; Chinese: 王绍光; pinyin: Wáng Shàoguāng) is a Chinese political scientist. He is currently an emeritus professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A critic of Western representative democracy, his particular research interests include the history of the Cultural Revolution, sortition, the welfare state, and the comparative politics of East Asia. He advocates for neoauthoritarianism.