Dali L. Yang

Dali L. Yang is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of 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 show more the Great Leap Famine (1996); and Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (1997). He is also the editor or co-editor of several other volumes and the author of many articles. Yang is-the founding faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing and of the University of Chicago Confucius Institute. He is a current member of the Committee of 100, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the China Committee of the City of Chicago Sister Cities Committee. He received his PhD from Princeton. show less