Simon Sihang Luo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Civics Initiative. His current book project investigates the critical relationship between memories, emotions, and possibilities of democracy and democratization by taking the intellectual debates in post-Cultural Revolution China (1976-now) as a case study. His research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary political thought, comparative political theory, democratic theory, Marxism, critical theory, political emotions, and political memories.