LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing Economic Policy Paradigms in China: Bureaucratic Politics and the Many “China Models”
Yingyao Wang, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
Attend in person or via Zoom:
https://myumi.ch/794P5
Dr. Wang’s recent book, Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State, provides a fresh account of China’s economic reform over the past four decades, highlighting the pivotal role of mid-level bureaucrats in shaping China’s development trajectories and global ambition. In contrast to the conventional view of China’s development strategy as linear, top-down, and coherent, this book uncovers the contradictions and conflicts inherent in China’s economic policy paradigms, rooted in the social logic of bureaucratic competition, generational shifts, and network coalitions in the Chinese state. The book won the 2005 Sociology of Development Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association.
Yingyao Wang is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She works at the intersection of economic sociology, political sociology, and development. She has published articles on corruption, taxation, and China’s industrial policy and financial market development. Currently, she is working on projects related to China’s outward foreign direct investment, how China study other parts of the world, and the relationship between corruption, finance, and the making of market frontiers. Besides her empirical work, she also writes about social and organizational theory.
https://myumi.ch/794P5
Dr. Wang’s recent book, Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State, provides a fresh account of China’s economic reform over the past four decades, highlighting the pivotal role of mid-level bureaucrats in shaping China’s development trajectories and global ambition. In contrast to the conventional view of China’s development strategy as linear, top-down, and coherent, this book uncovers the contradictions and conflicts inherent in China’s economic policy paradigms, rooted in the social logic of bureaucratic competition, generational shifts, and network coalitions in the Chinese state. The book won the 2005 Sociology of Development Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association.
Yingyao Wang is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She works at the intersection of economic sociology, political sociology, and development. She has published articles on corruption, taxation, and China’s industrial policy and financial market development. Currently, she is working on projects related to China’s outward foreign direct investment, how China study other parts of the world, and the relationship between corruption, finance, and the making of market frontiers. Besides her empirical work, she also writes about social and organizational theory.
| Building: | Weiser Hall |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Asian Languages And Cultures, business in china, China, Economics |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, International Institute, Asian Languages and Cultures |
