Institute Fellow

Professor YANG Kai

Prof Yang Kai is an Assistant Professor (Presidential Early Career Scholar) in the Department of Government and International Affairs, Lingnan University. He is holding, or has held, externally-funded visiting fellowships at Harvard-Yenching Institute (2026-27), the University of California at Berkeley (2021-22), and the University of Vienna (2020-21). He employs both qualitative and quantitative methods to study comparative politics, contentious politics, and state-veteran relations. His research have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Politics, Critical Asian Studies, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, The China Review, and Modern China.

Prof YANG Kai's Profile