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Welcome! I am Senior Lecturer in Chinese and East Asian Business at the Lau China Institute and King's Business School at King's College London.
My research and teaching focus on the political economy and business of China. I am also interested in authoritarian politics, political economy of development, public opinion, and research methodology.
My current research project examines how Chinese political elites use land to serve purposes related to their political interests, and how such politicized land-use behavior shapes the development of property-rights institutions and land and real-estate markets. Journal articles on this topic have appeared in China Journal, Journal of Public Policy, Problems of Post-communism, and World Development.
I have also written extensively on the topic of rural governance, with a focus on how village power structure and quasi-democratic institutions shape villagers' political behavior and rural development outcomes. See my articles in China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Political Studies.
Another area of research interest focuses on government-business relations. In an article published at the Journal of East Asian Studies, my co-authors and I examine the clientelistic relationships between government officials and entreprenuers in the contexts of People's Congresses and People's Political Consultative Conferences.
I received Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University and B.A. in Chemistry and Economics at Peking University. I also held a M.A. in Economics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining King's College London, I was a Career Development Fellow in the Political Economy of China at the University of Oxford and an Assistant Professor in Chinese Politics at Trinity College Dublin.
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