Chenggang Xu is a political economist on China’s communist regime. He is a Senior Research Scholar at SCCEI, Stanford University and a Board Member of the Ronald Coase Institute. Before retiring from the University of Hong Kong, he was the Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics there, a Special-Term Professor at Tsinghua University, and a World-Class University Professor at Seoul National University. He served as the president of Asian Law and Economics and also as a consultant for the World Bank and the IMF. He has frequently appeared in the media to analyze or comment on China’s political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1991. He was a recipient of the 2013 Sun Yefang Prize and the first recipient of the Chinese Economics Prize (2016).

 Forthcoming Books

Xu, Chenggang. Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism. Cambridge University Press (English version), to be published in 2023.

Xu, Chenggang. Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism. Taiwan University Press (Chinese Version), to be published in 2023.

Xu Chenggang's Collected Works, Volumes 2-5, forthcoming.

Contact Information：

E-mail: cgxu@stanford.edu

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/cgxu