Hansong Li is a political theorist and historian of political, economic, and legal thought at the Department of Government, the Joint Centre for History and Economics, Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies & Mittal Institute for South Asia at Harvard University, and currently a Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, a fellow at the Centre for Global Intellectual History in Shanghai, and an affiliated faculty at the Nanjing Normal University. His previous works range from legal philosophy, political theory of time and space, and Tangutology, to geopolitics and political economy. His current book project explores the languages and practices of interstate justice in the West, South Asia, and East Asia.

Selected Publications:

Li, Hansong (2022). 政治思想史對話錄. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2022.

Li, Hansong (2022). “The Indo-Pacific: Intellectual Origins and International Visions in Global Contexts” Modern Intellectual History 19(3): 807-833.

Li, Hansong (2022). “Locating Mobile Sovereignty: Carthage in Natural Jurisprudence” History of Political Thought 43(2): 246-272.

Li, Hansong (2022). “Timing the Laws: Rousseau’s Theory of Development in Corsica” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 29(4): 648-679.

Li, Hansong & Wu, Yifei (2022). “Signalling Security: An Observational and Game Theory Approach to Inter-pedestrian Psychology” Transportation Research (Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour) 86: 238-251.

Li, Hansong (2021). “The Space of the Sea in Montesquieu's Political Thought” Global Intellectual History 6(4): 421-442.

Li, Hansong & Wu, Yifei (2021). “Ethics and Economics of Medical Supplies in the COVID-19 Pandemic” European Scientific Journal, 17(31): 87-138.

Li, Hansong (ed. & transl. 2021). Shi, Jinbo. The Economy of Western Xia. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

Li, Hansong (ed & transl. 2021). Shi, Jinbo. Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Li, Hansong (2019). “Time, Right and the Justice of War and Peace in Hugo Grotius’s Political Thought.” History of European Ideas 45(4): 536-552.