Yuqian Cai is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Global Affairs at the School of Social Sciences and a writing instructor at the Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained an MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University and a MALS degree in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, and he worked at the University of Hong Kong and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His current interests straddle the boundaries of international relations, political economy, intellectual history, and narrative research, with a focus on China’s vision and role in global governance, and more generally the Global South (especially South and Southeast Asia) in the emerging multiplex world order.