Yuen Yuen Ang

Yuen Yuen Ang[lower-alpha 1] is a professor and author of China's political economy and the global implications of its rise. She is the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize from the American Political Science Association. Her 2016 book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) was named by Foreign Affairs as one of the "Best Books of 2017."[1][2]

Career and research

Ang was born in Singapore to an ethnic Chinese family.[3] She studied at Colorado College and received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 2010. She was an assistant professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in 2010-11, and in 2011 became an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan.

Ang's research focuses on the interaction between industrial development, technological innovation, and political structures, with an emphasis on China.

Ang is also active in public policy debates and her opinion columns have been published by the Washington Post and Project Syndicate among others.[4][5]

Books
  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Cornell University Press: Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2016
  • China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption, Cambridge University Press, 2020

Awards

Notes
  1. In this Chinese name, the family name is Ang.

References
  1. "The Best of Books 2017". Foreign Affairs.
  2. Andrew J. Nathan (15 December 2017). "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, by Yuen Yuen Ang". Foreign Affairs.
  3. Dubner, Stephen J. Dubner (2021-11-03). "Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China? (Ep. 481)". Freakonomics. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  4. Yuen Yuen Ang (13 April 2021). "Chinese leaders boast about China's rising power. The real story is different". Washington Post.
  5. Yuen Yuen Ang (28 October 2020). "The False Dichotomy of Autocracy and Democracy". Project Syndicate.
  6. "Yuen Yuen Ang - Associate professor, University of Michigan". The Conversation.
  7. "Dr. Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor, University of Michigan" (PDF). United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
  8. "Peter Katzenstein Book Prize". Cornell University Department of Government.
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