Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Areas of Interest
- Political Economy
- State-business Relation
- Industrial Policy
- International Business
- Chinese Politics
Biography
Shengqiao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at UTM. His research focuses on state–business relations, with a regional emphasis on China. He studies how firms and individuals respond to government intervention—such as regulation, industrial policy, and economic sanctions—and how these interactions shape governance outcomes.
His work has been published or accepted in Journal of Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Survey, and Issues & Studies. He received the 2023 APSA Best Conference Paper Award and has been featured in The Economist, The Diplomat, Initium Media, and Taiwan Insight.
Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Reimagining the Economy Project at the Center for International Development.
As an advocate for making social science accessible, he has composed more than 220 public-facing summaries of journal articles since 2020. This academic blog Invitation to Political Science has garnered over 1.8 million reads (available at Notion).