Born and raised in China, Yiqin (pronounced ee-ching) Fu spent many of her formative years in the U.S. and the U.K. She is studying towards a Ph.D. in political science at Stanford University, after having worked as a research associate at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center in New Haven, Connecticut and Beijing, China. Yiqin holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford and is broadly interested in innovation, U.S.-China relations, and comparative political and electoral systems.

In her free time, Yiqin codes in Python and R to tell data stories. She keeps a blog in Chinese, contributes to the Financial Times' Chinese edition, and reposts select content in English on this site.

Her English-language writing can also be seen in Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic.

Please feel free to get in touch at yiqinfu.17 ### gmail.com.

Views expressed on this site are her own.