Observing and Analyzing Change in China
Professor Dali L. Yang is the Director of the  East Asian Institute at the National
University of Singapore. His research interests are political institutions and political
economy, with special reference to China. He was previously Chairman of the
Department of Political Science at The University of Chicago.   He was also a former
director of the University's  
Committee on International Relations, one of the nations'
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 teaches classes on China’s politics and political economy at Chicago.  He
is a member of professional associations such as the American Political Science
Association and the Association for Asian Studies.   He is also on the editorial boards of
various journals, including
Asian Perspective, American Political Science Review,  Journal of
Contemporary China
, and World Politics.  At Chicago he is a member of the Center for
East Asian Studies. 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
editor and contributor, Discontented Miracle (World Scientific, 2007) and, as co-
editor (with Barry Naughton) and contributor,
Holding China Together: Diversity and
National Integration in Post-Deng China
(Cambridge University Press, 2004).       

Professor Yang has been an occasional consultant to industry,  government agencies, and
the World Bank.  He is currently a member of the advisory board of China Telecom
Group, a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, co-chair of the
China Roundtable of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a member of
the China Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program.  
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Dali L. Yang
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