Dali Yang

Dali Yang

Dali Yang’s research interests include the politics of China’s development, particularly regulation, governance and state-society relations. He is the founding faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, a University-wide initiative to promote collaboration and exchange between UChicago scholars and students and their Chinese counterparts.

Among his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (2004), Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine (1996) and Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (1997). He was a contributor to The United States and the Rise of China and India, by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China (2004). He also is editor or co-editor of several other volumes, most recently The Global Recession and China’s Political Economy (2012). 

Yang Stories

Debt Load Digs Into Mining Industry

Prof. Dali Yang discusses ‘colossal misjudgment of future demand’ for raw materials in China, which has saddled mining companies with massive debts


Another Chinese Corruption Case in the Spotlight -- the Odds Are Grim

Article cites Prof. Dali Yang, who says though ‘Chinese courts have made great efforts to boost transparency’ the trial of former security chief Zhou Yongkang will be more secretive


China Probe of Former Security Chief May Mean Closed-Door Trial

Article cites Prof. Dali Yang, who says trial of Chinese security chief will probably be ‘closed-door,’ with few details publicly released


China’s latest targets: Officials who send their families abroad

Article cites Prof. Dali Yang, who explains Chinese public's perception of officials who help their families leave China


Today Online

U.S.-China relations evolve with the times: U.S. expert

Forty years after President Nixon's landmark visit, Prof. Dali Yang recalls 'sea change' in international diplomacy


SINA

China's 'peaceful rise' and what it means for the international legal system

What will China’s “peaceful rise” mean for the international legal system? This question was explored in-depth at an April 6, 2011 symposium on “China and International Law,” including discussions on the international security system, human ...

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Center in Beijing opens with focus on collaboration

As nine pairs of scissors sliced through scarlet ribbon, a cheer went up on Wednesday from hundreds of people who filled the gleaming halls and galleries and classrooms of the University of Chicago’s Center in Beijing.


Brooke O’Neill

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