October 31 | 10:00 AM | Online via Zoom
Urban high rises and technology dominate discussions about Chinese economy, but many of the salient features of Chinese economy, such as overcapacity, surging export, have roots in rural China. This talk traces how the developments in rural China have shaped China’s economic model and its growth patterns.
Biography
Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of Statism with Chinese Characteristics: A History of China’s Reforms and Reversals (Cambridge University Press, 2026) and The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success and Might Lead to Its Decline (Yale University Press, 2023), a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023. Two more books are forthcoming: Rethinking the Needham Question (Princeton) and The Great Political Divergence (Yale).
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