| Observing and Analyzing Change in China |
Dali L. Yang is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of The Center
for East Asian Studies at The University of Chicago. He is also Faculty Director of a new
initiative to establish a University of Chicago Center in Beijing, China.
Professor Yang has previously served as Director of the East Asian Institute at the National
University of Singapore, Chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of
Chicago, and is also a former director of the University of Chicago's Committee on
International Relations, one of the oldest graduate programs in international affairs.
An engineering graduate from Beijing Science and Technology University, Yang received his
Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University, specializing in international relations
and comparative politics. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1992.
Professor Yang's research interests are political institutions and political economy, with
special reference to China. He teaches classes on China’s politics, political economy, and
foreign policy at Chicago. He is a member of professional associations such as the American
Political Science Association and the Association for Asian Studies and has served on the
editorial boards of various journals, including American Political Science Review, World Politics,
Asian Perspective, Journal of Contemporary China, and Journal of Chinese Political Science and is co-
editor of China: An International Journal. He has been a co-director of the University of
Chicago Workshop on East Asia: Politics, Economy and Society.
Professor Yang is the author of many books and scholarly articles on China's political
economy and development. Among his books are
Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford
University Press, 2004, 2006) ;
Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap
Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996, 1998);
Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997).
and, as co-author, 中国地区发展--经济增长, 制度变迁与地区差异, 经济管理出版社,
1997 and 2007 (中国社会科学院文库); and
as editor or co-editor, Discontented Miracle (World Scientific, 2007) and Holding China Together:
Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China (Cambridge University Press, 2004); and
China's Reforms at 30: Challenges and Prospects (World Scientific, 2008).
Professor Yang has been a consultant to industry, government agencies, and the World
Bank. He is currently a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a
member of the China Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program, and
previously served as a member of the advisory board of China Telecom Group and co-chair
of the China Roundtable of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
for East Asian Studies at The University of Chicago. He is also Faculty Director of a new
initiative to establish a University of Chicago Center in Beijing, China.
Professor Yang has previously served as Director of the East Asian Institute at the National
University of Singapore, Chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of
Chicago, and is also a former director of the University of Chicago's Committee on
International Relations, one of the oldest graduate programs in international affairs.
An engineering graduate from Beijing Science and Technology University, Yang received his
Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University, specializing in international relations
and comparative politics. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1992.
Professor Yang's research interests are political institutions and political economy, with
special reference to China. He teaches classes on China’s politics, political economy, and
foreign policy at Chicago. He is a member of professional associations such as the American
Political Science Association and the Association for Asian Studies and has served on the
editorial boards of various journals, including American Political Science Review, World Politics,
Asian Perspective, Journal of Contemporary China, and Journal of Chinese Political Science and is co-
editor of China: An International Journal. He has been a co-director of the University of
Chicago Workshop on East Asia: Politics, Economy and Society.
Professor Yang is the author of many books and scholarly articles on China's political
economy and development. Among his books are
Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford
University Press, 2004, 2006) ;
Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap
Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996, 1998);
Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997).
and, as co-author, 中国地区发展--经济增长, 制度变迁与地区差异, 经济管理出版社,
1997 and 2007 (中国社会科学院文库); and
as editor or co-editor, Discontented Miracle (World Scientific, 2007) and Holding China Together:
Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China (Cambridge University Press, 2004); and
China's Reforms at 30: Challenges and Prospects (World Scientific, 2008).
Professor Yang has been a consultant to industry, government agencies, and the World
Bank. He is currently a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a
member of the China Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program, and
previously served as a member of the advisory board of China Telecom Group and co-chair
of the China Roundtable of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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Drawing of President
Richard Nixon Holding Two
Collection), by Emidio
Angelo, February 23, 1973.
Original at Richard Nixon
Library (unrestricted rights).
President Nixon received
many panda-related domestic
gifts, including this drawing,
after returning from China.
http://www.presidentialtimeli
ne.org/html/record.php?id=2
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Richard Nixon Holding Two
Collection), by Emidio
Angelo, February 23, 1973.
Original at Richard Nixon
Library (unrestricted rights).
President Nixon received
many panda-related domestic
gifts, including this drawing,
after returning from China.
http://www.presidentialtimeli
ne.org/html/record.php?id=2
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