Dali Yang
Director, East Asian Institute
Professor Yang joined EAI as director on July 1, 2007. He was Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago from 2004 to 2007 and was the director of the Committee on International Relations from 1999 to 2004. Professor Yang's research interests are political institutions and political economy, with special reference to China.
An engineering graduate from the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, Yang received his Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University, specializing in international relations and comparative politics.
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); Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997); and Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996), and, as editor or co-editor, Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China (Cambridge University Press, 2004, with Barry Naughton) and Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Adaptations in China (World Scientific, 2007).
Professor Yang has served on the editorial boards of various journals, including American Political Science Review, Asian Perspective, Journal of Contemporary China, and World Politics. He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a member of the advisory board of China Telecom Group, and served as 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. He has been an occasional consultant to industry, government agencies, and the World Bank.
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