Leigh Jenco is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has taught at universities all over the world, including Singapore, Taiwan, Germany and the US. Her research specialism is Chinese political thought, from the late imperial to the modern era. Her publications include Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao (Cambridge University Press, 2010). She is also co-editor (with Murad Idris and Megan Thomas) of the definitive Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020).