Doctoral Student
Email: zhao.yufei@bc.edu
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Adam Smith
Enlightenment Political Philosophy
Comparative Political Theory
a) Papers and Book Reviews
Review of Bernard Manin’s Montesquieu, in French Studies (forthcoming)
Review of Robert A. Carleo III’s Humane Liberality: A Confucian Proposal, in The Review of Politics (forthcoming)
“Has Emile’s Education Failed?” in Beida Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming) [Chinese]
“Leo Strauss’s Interpretation of Hobbes in the 1930s — As the Response to Carl Schmitt,” in Journal of History of Political Thought, 2025(02): 115-133. [Chinese]
“The Prince and the People in Hamlet from the Perspective of Machiavelli,” in Research in Classics, 2025(01): 80-93. [Chinese]
“Amour-propre in Rousseau’s Thought: The Way to Depravation and Two Ways of Salvation,” in Research in Classics, 2022(02): 45-71. [Chinese]
b) Translations
Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Commentaire sur l’Esprit des lois de Montesquieu, trans. Yufei Zhao, Nanjing: The Commercial Press. (forthcoming 2026)
Wilfried Nippel, Ancient and Modern Democracy: Two Concepts of Liberty?, trans. Yufei Zhao and Yan Lu, SDX Joint Publishing. (forthcoming 2025)
Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey, Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment, trans. Yufei Zhao, Beijing: People’s Literature Publishing House, 2024.
Andrew Abbott, A Resting Place before Going on Elsewhere: Present and Process in Social Life, trans. Linzhou Xing and Yufei Zhao, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2023.
“Rousseau’s Dialogues: The Conspiracy of the Enlightenment Philosophers and the Problem of Public Opinion,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2025.
“Montesquieu’s Case for and against Commerce,” Power 2025: Hierarchy, Action, and Power in Question, UVA, Jan 2025.
“Historical Subconsciousness Seeping into the Future: The Three-Body Problem, Chinese Nationalism, and the Challenge to Democracy,” American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Sept 2024.
“The New Prince and the People in Machiavelli’s Comedies,” International Machiavelli Society Inaugural Conference, Rome, Dec 2023.
Adam Smith Fellowship, 2023-2024
Bradley Foundation Grant, 2023
Ernest Fortin Memorial Foundation Grant, 2022
John Marshall Program Grant, 2022