Yuen Yuen Ang: Debunking Myths About Democracy, Growth, and Corruption

Yuen Yuen Ang is an associate professor of political science and a China scholar at the University of Michigan, with a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her works center around China’s rise – one of the most significant disruptions of our times – and its global consequences. She studies China both as a disruptor to the global order and how its government adapts (or fails to adapt) to twenty-first-century challenges. She offers a bold and innovative framework for understanding economic development, which challenges current wisdom from modernization and institutionalist perspectives.

She is the author of two award-winning books: "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap" (2016) and "China’s Gilded Age: the Paradox of Economic Boom & Vast Corruption" (2020).