Dr Zhiguang Yin is a Professor in international politics at the Fudan University. His research interest lies mainly in the area of Chinese modern intellectual and legal history, Marxist political economy, imperial history, and the global south modernisation. His research and teaching centre on a theoretical interests in understanding the making of the modern world order through the dynamic tension between domination and resistance. His most recent monographs include: A New World: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the PRC’s Imagination of Global Order (Chinese, 2022), and Politics of Art: The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China (Brill, 2014). His articles appear in English and Chinese academic journals such as European Journal of International Law, Third World Quarterly, History，Turkish Journal of Sociology, Shehui Kexue (Social Sciences), and Kaifang Shidai (Open Times).
He is currently the principal investigator of a 5-year project funded by The National Social Science Fund of China - Major Project Grant. The project looks into the issue of development in the Global South from a Marxist political economic perspective. This project also hopes to integrate modern AI technology, statistical tools, and Marxist political economy to develop a fresh epistemological and methodological approach to tackle the issues of moderniation in the Global South.