Biography
Yingqiu Kuang is currently a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow on Contemporary Asia at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Centre, Stanford University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology, law, and global governance in East Asia and beyond. Her book project, “A Mosaic of Mundane Innovations: Emerging Powers, Multinational Firms, and Global 5G Technology Rules,” examines the emergence of latecomer economies such as China and South Korea as key agents in the global technology governance regime. Using mixed research methods and an original, novel dataset, the project aims to explain why East Asian firms appear more effective in 5G rule-making on transnational platforms than traditional technology giants, and how the diverse behaviour of these firms is reshaping global institutions.
At the EUI, Yingqiu will continue expanding and revising her book manuscript. She will also pursue her scholarly agenda on how technological unpredictability is changing the landscape of economic governance in Asia, Europe, and the wider world.
Yingqiu completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She also holds master’s degrees in political science from UBC and Leiden. She developed her interest in East Asian politics and economy while an undergraduate student at Peking University and Waseda University in China and Japan. As a policy specialist, she has also worked with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the National Energy Board of Canada, and others.