Contact information
Email: h279wang@uwaterloo.ca
Areas of specialization
- Globalization
- Global governance
- International political economy
- Chinese politics
- Chinese political economy
Dr. Wang received a BA in International Politics from Peking University, an MA in History from Ohio University, and an MA and PhD in Politics from Princeton University. Her research provides theoretically informed analysis of important empirical questions. Most of her scholarly work has focused on three areas: 1) Chinese political economy and foreign policy, 2) global governance and China’s role in global governance, and 3) international political economy. She is the author of two books on Chinese political economy and a co-editor of another book on the rise of China in international finance. Her articles have appeared in many leading academic journals, including Asian Survey, China Quarterly, Global Governance, Global Policy, International Affairs, Journal of Contemporary China, New Political Economy, and Review of International Political Economy. Dr. Wang teaches courses on globalization, global governance, Chinese politics, Chinese political economy, and international political economy. She advises MA and PhD students on these topics. She is an active participant in policy and public discussions. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on US China Relations.
Selected awards
- Mayling Birney Global Scholar, London School of Economics, 2024.
- Fellow, Public Intellectuals Program, the National Committee on United States-China Relations, 2005-2007
- Residential Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005-06
Selected publications
- Wang, Hongying (2025) The Political Economy of China, Polity Press, 2025.
- DiLeo, Monica, Helleiner, Eric, and Wang, Hongying (2025). “A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift”. New Political Economy: 1–14.
- Wang, Hongying and Cooper, Andrew (2023). “Public opinion on Chinese foreign aid policy: Calculated opposition or general discontent?”. Journal of Contemporary China, 32(141): 455-472.
- Wang, Hongying (2021). “Regime complexity and complex foreign policy: China in international development finance governance,” Global Policy 12 (S4): 69-79.
- Zheng, Liansheng and Wang, Hongying (2020). “Authority and autonomy without independence: The gradual institutional change of the Chinese central bank,” Journal of Contemporary China, 30 (129): 349-67.
- Cooper, Andrew and Wang, Hongying (2020). “China engages former foreign leaders: In search of external validation of regime legitimacy,” Asian Survey, 60 (4): 634-658.
- Kamel, Maha and Wang, Hongying (2019) “Petro-RMB? Oil trade and the internationalization of the Chinese currency,” International Affairs, 95 (5): 1131-1148.
- Wang, Hongying (2019). “The NDB and the AIIB: China’s ambiguous approach to global financial governance,” Development and Change, 50 (1): 221-244.
- Helleiner, Eric and Wang, Hongying (2018). “Beyond the tributary tradition of Chinese IPE: The indigenous roots of early Chinese economic nationalism,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 11 (4): 451–483.
- Helleiner, Eric and Wang, Hongying (2018). "Limits to the BRICS’ challenge: credit rating reform and institutional innovation in global finance." Review of International Political Economy 25 (5): 573-595.
Current projects
- Domestic institutions and economic statecraft
- Knowledge regimes
Courses taught
- PSCI 252 - Global South
- PSCI 259 - Government and Politics of Asia
- PSCI 283 - International Political Economy
- PSCI 387 - Globalization
- PSCI 389/LS 366 - Global Governance
- PSCI 358 - Political Change in China
- PSCI 405 - Chinese Political Economy
- PSCI 480 - China and Global Governance
- PSCI 485 - Special Topics in International Political Economy
- GGOV 600 - Globalization and Global Governance