Observing and Analyzing Change in China
Professor Dali L. Yang is Professor and 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
has been a professor and 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
or co-editor,  Discontented Miracle (World Scientific, 2007) and Holding
China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China
(Cambridge
University Press, 2004).       

Professor Yang has been a 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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