Yang Han

Yang (韩阳) is a third-year DPhil candidate in International Relations and Swire Scholar at St Antony’s College. Her doctoral research focuses on contemporary China-Africa relations, exploring China’s outlook on international hierarchies through its discourse on Africa with a particular focus on the intersections of race, class and gender. Yang’s research interests include China’s foreign policy, poststructuralist feminism, postcolonialism, international hierarchies, and critical security studies. Yang holds an MSc degree in International Relations Research (Distinction) from LSE and a BA in International Politics (First Class; with a double major in Psychology) from Peking University. Yang’s MSc thesis offered a postcolonial account of China’s gender performativity during the Sino-Indian Border War. Previously, she also studied the dynamics of China’s national role conceptions since 1989. 

Yang worked for UNIDO as a gender expert providing gender and socio-economic analysis in Chinese contexts and offered policy recommendations for gender mainstreaming of environmental policies in China. Yang also works as a research assistant for the Climate South project at the Blavatnik School of Government.

Research 

Yang's research interests include:

• Feminism,
• Foreign Policy and diplomacy,
• Gender,
• Identity,
• International order

Teaching

• China-Africa relations;
• China's foreign policy;
• IR feminism;
• critical security studies;
• discourse analysis

Awards

• Swire Scholar (2018 - )
• Susan Kidd Grant, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (2018)
• Kwang-Hua Educational Foundation for Distinguished Senior Students (2014)