Yuen Yuen Ang
洪源远
Born
Singapore
OccupationAlfred Chandler Chair Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University
AwardsTheda Skocpol Prize (APSA), 2020
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisState, market, and bureau-contracting in reform China (2010)
Doctoral advisorJean C. Oi
Academic work
Institutions
Yuen Yuen Ang
Simplified Chinese洪源远
Traditional Chinese洪源遠

Yuen Yuen Ang[lower-alpha 1] is a Singaporean-American professor of political science and the author of two books: How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016), named one of the "Best Books of 2017" by Foreign Affairs,[1][2] and China's Gilded Age (2020). She is the Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University.

Career and research

Ang was born in Singapore.[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 2010–2011, and in 2011 became an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan. On January 12, 2023, she became the first newly named professor at the Center for Economy and Society (CES) and the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.[4]

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

She is also active in public policy debates, and her opinion columns have been published by Foreign Affairs and Project Syndicate, among others.[5][6]

She has been interviewed on Freakonomics Radio and the Ezra Klein Show, among other outlets.[7]

In 2023, she was appointed Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University.[8]

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

  • 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize[9]
  • 2017 Foreign Affairs "Best of Books" for How China Escaped the Poverty Trap[10]
  • 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for "high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to the most pressing issues of our times"[11]
  • 2020 Theda Skocpol Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for "impactful contributions to the study of comparative politics"[12]
  • 2022 Douglass North Best Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics[13]
  • 2022 Alice Amsden Book Award, awarded by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics[14]

Notes

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

References

  1. ↑ "The Best of Books 2017". Foreign Affairs. July 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ Andrew J. Nathan (December 15, 2017). "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, by Yuen Yuen Ang". Foreign Affairs.
  3. ↑ Dubner, Stephen J. Dubner (November 3, 2021). "Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China? (Ep. 481)". Freakonomics. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Political Economist Yuen Yuen Ang Joins SNF Agora Faculty : Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins".
  5. ↑ Yuen Yuen Ang (May–June 2018). "Autocracy with Chinese characteristics: Beijing's behind-the-scenes reforms". Foreign Affairs.
  6. ↑ Yuen Yuen Ang (October 28, 2020). "The False Dichotomy of Autocracy and Democracy". Project Syndicate.
  7. ↑ "Opinion | There's Been a Revolution in How China Is Governed". The New York Times. January 24, 2023. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Political Economist Yuen Yuen Ang Joins SNF Agora Faculty". snfagora.jhu. January 12, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Peter Katzenstein Book Prize". Cornell University Department of Government.
  10. ↑ Nathan, Andrew J. (December 15, 2017). "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Meet 2018 Carnegie Fellow". Political Science Now. August 17, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Dr. Yuen Yuen Ang Awarded Theda Skocpol Prize". Stanford University. September 15, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Winner of the 2022 Douglass North Best Book Prize | SIOE". www.sioe.org. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  14. ↑ Bromberg, Jacob (June 21, 2022). "SASE 2022 Alice Amsden Best Book Award". SASE. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
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