John Yasuda received his MPhil in Comparative Politics in 2007 with a
focus on contemporary China. Financial support from the Contemporary
China Studies Programme funded John's studies at Oxford and his
fieldwork for a comparative project on soft power institutions in China
and Japan. The comparative politics program provided both excellent
instruction in political science methodology and Chinese contemporary
politics. John greatly benefited from the Oxford program's unique
commitment to Area Studies and the broader Comparative Politics field.
The MPhil program's unique one-on-one tutorial system reinforced
important political science concepts and provided ample opportunity to
discuss his own research with senior faculty. Prior to his studies at
Oxford, John Graduated with a B.A. in Government from Harvard University
in 2005. John is currently pursuing his PhD in Political Science at the
University California, Berkeley. His scholarly interests in China
relate to China's institutional development in the reform era, informal
institutions, and social movements.
