Yuxing Huang
Department of International Relations
Mingzhai 328, Tsinghua University
Beijing, China, 100084
yuxinghuang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Employment
2018/12—present, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University.
2016/10—2018/12, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University.
2021/1-2021/5, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University (Reschedued, due to the COVID-19).
2020/1-2020/2, Visiting Scholar, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
2019/7-2019/8, Visiting Scholar, The Carter Center.
2019/1-2019/2, Visiting Scholar, Universität Trier.
2018/7-2018/8, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
2018/1-2018/2, Visiting Academic Fellow, Mercator Institute for China Studies.
2017/7-2017/8, Visiting Scholar, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
Education
2016/5, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Boston College.
2011/5, M.A., Department of Political Science, Boston College.
2009/7, B.A., with University Honors, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University.
Research Projects
2020/7-2022/6, Principal Investigator, European Politics and International Relations, Graduate School Research and Teaching Fund, 100,000 RMB, Tsinghua University.
2017/1-2019/12, Principal Investigator, A Rising Power’s Alliance Strategies, Initiative Scientific Research Program Fund, 100,000 RMB, Tsinghua University.
2017/1-2019/12, Principal Investigator, A Great Power’s Regional Strategies, 300,000 RMB, Start-up Research Fund, Tsinghua University.
2009/12-2011/12, Participant, A Theory of Interventions among Nations, 50,000 RMB, Ministry of Education Research Fund, People’s Republic of China.
Honors and Fellowships
2020, Distinguished Faculty Adviser Award for Undergraduate Thesis, Beijing Municipal Government.
2020, Fellowship, China Scholarship Council (Declined, due to the COVID-19).
2020, Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
2018-2020, Cyrus Tang Young Scholar.
2018, Research Grant, Mercator Institute for China Studies.
2018, The Second Rank of the “Faculty Teaching Award,” Tsinghua University.
2018, The Outstanding Faculty Member, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University.
2016, Travel Grant, International Studies Association (declined).
2015, Travel Grant, American Political Science Association.
2014, Research Travel Grant, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.
2013, Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Scholarship, Syracuse University.
2013-2015, Fortin, Bradley, and Veritas Foundations Summer Grants, Boston College.
2009-2016, Fellowship and Scholarship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston College.
2007-2009, Dong Fangyi International Politics Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
2008, The First Rank Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Performance (Xinyi Scholarship), Tsinghua University.
2007, The First Rank Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Performance, Tsinghua University.
2006-2007, Scholarship of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong.
2006, The Second Rank of National Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
2006, The Outstanding Award Paper, Huanqiu shibao [The Global Times].
Research Interests
International Relations Theory, Chinese Foreign Policy, Comparative Grand Strategies.
Publications
Books
Chen Qi and Huang Yuxing, A Theory of Interventions among Nations: Practice of Spring and Autumn Era and Implications for Modern China (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2012).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Huang Yuxing, “Sihanouk’s Foreign Policy, 1954-1975,” Lengzhan Guojishi Yanjiu [Cold War International History Studies], accepted, forthcoming.
Huang Yuxing, “Capability Differentials and Military Coordination,” Shijie Jingji yu Zhengzhi [World Economics and Politics], No.5, 2021, pp.108-130.
Huang Yuxing, “An Interdependence Theory of Wedge Strategies,” Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol.13, No.2, 2020, pp.253-286.
Huang Yuxing, “Theoretical Significance of Studies on International Relations History,” Lengzhan Guojishi Yanjiu [Cold War International History Studies], No.2, 2019, pp.171-175.
Huang Yuxing, “Functional Division and Alliance Formation,” Shijie Jingji yu Zhengzhi [World Economics and Politics], No.2, 2019, pp.101-122.
Huang Yuxing, “Policy Coordination of Small Power Coalitions,” Shijie Jingji yu Zhengzhi [World Economics and Politics], No.3, 2018, pp.115-135.
Huang Yuxing, “Negotiating Power and Alliance Transformation,” Shijie Jingji yu Zhengzhi [World Economics and Politics], No.6, 2017, pp.77-101.
Huang Yuxing, “Realignment Expectations and Alliance Commitments,” Guoji Zhengzhi Kexue [Quarterly Journal of International Politics], No.1, 2017, pp.71-99.
Huang Yuxing, “A Structural Theory of Multilateral Asymmetric Strategies: China’s Strategies towards Neighbors before 1982,” Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol.8, No.1, 2015, pp.89-113; Reprinted in Sun Xuefeng et al., China in the Territorial/Maritime Disputes: A CJIP Reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Huang Yuxing, “China’s Security and the Use of Force: Lessons from the Cold War,” in Vojtech Mastny and Zhu Liqun, eds., The Legacy of the Cold War: Perspectives on Security, Cooperation, and Conflict, Lanham, M.D.: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2014, pp.277-322.
Sun Xuefeng and Huang Yuxing, “Revisiting China’s Use of Force in Asia: Dynamic, Level and Beyond,” Pacific Focus, Vol.27, No.3, 2012, pp.393-420.
Yan Xuetong and Huang Yuxing, “Hegemony in the Stratagems of the Warring States,” in Yan Xuetong, Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power, Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp.107-146.
Sun Xuefeng and Huang Yuxing, “China’s Rise and Evolution of the East Asia Regional Order,” Dangdai Yatai [Journal of Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies], No.1, 2011, pp.6-34. Reprinted in Li Xiangyang, eds., China-Neighboring Asian Countries Relations: Review and Analysis, Reading: Paths International Ltd, 2013, pp.14-37.
Chen Qi and Huang Yuxing, “Normative Dimensions of International Interventions,” Shijie Jingji yu Zhengzhi [World Economics and Politics], No.4, 2009, pp.6-15.
Chen Qi and Huang Yuxing, “On Legitimacy of ‘Intervention’ in International Relations,” Guoji Zhengzhi Kexue [Quarterly Journal of International Politics], No.1, 2009, pp.106-122.
Huang Yuxing, “Sino-Japanese Geopolitics Competitions on the Korean Peninsula, 1882-1895,” ZhongRi Guanxishi Yanjiu [Sino-Japanese Historical Review], No.4, 2008, pp.47-63.
Yan Xuetong and Huang Yuxing, “Interstate Political Thoughts on ‘Hegemony’ in the Warring State Period,” Guoji Zhengzhi Kexue [Quarterly Journal of International Politics], No.4, 2008, pp.79-102.
Chen Qi and Huang Yuxing, “Inter-state Interventions in the Spring and Autumn Period,” Guoji Zhengzhi Kexue [Quarterly Journal of International Politics], No.1, 2008, pp.33-73.
Other Publications
Huang Yuxing, Review of Thomas Meyer, J. Sales Marques and M. Telò eds., Regionalism and Multilateralism: Politics, Economics, Culture, New York: Routledge, 2019; and Thomas Meyer, J. Sales Marques and M. Telò eds., Towards a New Multilateralism: Cultural Divergence and Political Convergence? New York: Routledge, 2020, in Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2021.
Huang Yuxing, “Territorial Blackmails: Sino-Russian Territorial Disputes, 1850-1860,” The Outstanding Award Paper, by Huanqiu shibao [The Global Times], Beijing, 2006.
Conference Presentations
Huang Yuxing, “An Interdependence Theory of Wedge Strategies,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, December 11, 2020.
Huang Yuxing, “A Political Analysis of Responses to the COVID-19 Challenges in the United States/Europe,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 9, 2020.
Huang Yuxing, “Theoretical Significance of Studies on International Relations History,” Cold War International History Studies in China: Retrospect and Prospect, Institute of World History Studies, East China Normal University; NYUSH-ECNU Center on Global History, Economy and Culture, Shanghai, April 20-22, 2019.
Huang Yuxing, “China’s Regional Diplomacy during the Cold War: A Template for the Future?” Mercator Institute for China Studies, Berlin, January 17, 2018.
Huang Yuxing, “Theoretical Implications of Articles of Foreign Affairs,” Annual Meeting of Chinese Community of Political Science and International Studies, Beijing, June 26-27, 2017.
Huang Yuxing, “Asymmetric Statecraft: Competitors, Alignments, and Regional Diplomacy in Asia and Europe,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, September 12, 2016.
Huang Yuxing, “Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Chinese Regional Diplomacy,” 2015 ISAC-ISSS Conference, Springfield, October 8-10, 2015.
Huang Yuxing, “Asymmetric Statecraft: Alliances, Structures, and Regional Dominance in Asia,” American Political Science Association 111th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 3-6, 2015.
Huang Yuxing, “China’s Security and the Use of Force: Lessons from the Cold War,” Book Launch with Deputy Assistant Secretary General Jamie Shea and Professor Vojtech Mastny, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Headquarters, Brussels, November 13, 2014.
Huang Yuxing, “China’s Security and the Use of Force: Lessons from the Cold War,” Book Launch with Professors William Keylor, Mark Kramer, and Vojtech Mastny, International History Institute and Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Boston University, April 23, 2014.
Huang Yuxing, “Explaining Multilateral Asymmetric Behavior: An Anatomy of China’s Regional Strategies, 1949-79,” International Studies Association 55th Annual Convention, Toronto, March 26-29, 2014.
Huang Yuxing, “Multilateral Asymmetry in Multipolarity: China’s South Asia Strategies, 1949-62,” International Conference on China’s Relations with Neighboring Countries during the Cold War, History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, October 26-29, 2013.
Huang Yuxing, “A Great Power’s Behavior in Asymmetric Power Politics: The Deviant Case of China’s South Asia Policy 1949-62,” “Fault-lines and Fragmentations in International Systems”, Boston University, February 22-23, 2013.
Huang Yuxing, “Explaining a Great Power’s Policy Variation toward Weak Rivals: China’s Regional Policy, 1949-2005,” Annual Meeting of Chinese Community of Political Science and International Studies, Beijing, July 13-14, 2012.
Huang Yuxing, “International Audience, Domestic Rivalries and Accommodation: China’s Tibet Policy in 1950s,” “Shifting World Order: The Reallocation of Power,” Boston University, February 24-25, 2012.
Chen Qi and Huang Yuxing, “Inter-state Interventions in Spring and Autumn Period,” The First Symposium on Ethics & International Affairs, School of International and Diplomatic Affairs, Shanghai International Studies University, October 18, 2008.
Professional Skills
Languages: Chinese; English; German (reading).
Research Methods: Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse University, 2013.
Archival and Documentary Research
2020, Bundesarchiv Dienststelle Freiburg im Breisgau.
2019, Bundesarchiv Dienststelle Koblenz; Jimmy Carter Presidential Library; and Emory University Libraries.
2018, Bundesarchiv Dienststelle Berlin; Auswärtiges Amt Politisches Archiv; Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt; Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; and Harvard University Libraries.
2017, U.S. National Archive; and SAIS Library, Johns Hopkins University.
2016, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library; Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.
2015, Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
2014, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library; and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Archive.
Asia Library, University of Michigan; and Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto.
The Library of Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China; Fujian Provincial Archive; Guangdong Provincial Archive; Guangxi Autonomous Region Archive; Guizhou Provincial Archive; Hainan Provincial Archive; Henan Provincial Archive; Hubei Provincial Archive; Hunan Provincial Archive; Jiangsu Provincial Archive; Shandong Provincial Archive; Shenzhen Municipal Archive; Tianjin Municipal Archive; Yunnan Provincial Archive; Zhejiang Provincial Archive; and Zhengzhou Municipal Archive.
2013, Foreign Ministry Archive of the People’s Republic of China.
Foreign Affairs University Libraries of the People’s Republic of China.
Qingdao Municipal Archive; and Shanghai Municipal Archive.
2012, Foreign Ministry Archive of the People’s Republic of China.
Beijing Municipal Archive; Chongqing Municipal Archive; and Sichuan Provincial Archive.
2011, National Security Archive; China Documentation Center and Taiwan Resource Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, George Washington University; Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library, Georgetown University; and Library of Congress.
2009-2015, H.C. Fung Library, Harvard University.
Teaching
2020-present, “European Politics and International Relations,” Johns Hopkins SAIS-Tsinghua dual degree master’s program and the Chinese Politics, Foreign Policy, and International Relations master’s program (G).
2017-present, “International Relations of Asia, 1945-1989,” Johns Hopkins SAIS-Tsinghua dual degree master’s program and the Chinese Politics, Foreign Policy, and International Relations master’s program (G).
2017-present, “Contemporary US-China Relations” (U).
2017-present, “International Relations: Summer Course” (U).
2017-2019, “International Relations: Research and Writing” (U).
University, Faculty, and Departmental Service
2021/1-present, Coordinator, The New Knowledge Forum, Institute of International Relations.
2020/11-present, Faculty Advisor, University Libraries.
2019/11-present, Secretary, The Graduate Evaluation Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences.
2019/8-present, Faculty Mentor, Class 83 & Class 85, Faculty of Social Sciences.
2018/8-2019/7, Faculty Mentor, Class 82B, Faculty of Social Sciences.
2017/9-present, Graduate Admission Committee, Department of International Relations.
