Yuen Yuen Ang is a Singaporean-American professor of political science and the author of two books: ''How China Escaped the Poverty Trap'' (2016) and ''China's Gilded Age'' (2020). ''How China Escaped the Poverty Trap'' (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) was named one of the "Best Books of 2017" by the academic journal ''

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''.

Career and research

Ang was born in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. She studied at

Colorado College Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell in his daughter's memory. The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its campus. The college offer ...

and received a Ph.D. in political science from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 2010. She was an assistant professor at the

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in 2010–2011, and in 2011 became an associate professor of political science at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. On January 12, 2023, she became the first new named professor at the Center for Economy and Society (CES) and the Department of Political Science in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Ang's research focuses on the interaction between industrial development, technological innovation, and political structures, with an emphasis on China. She is also active in public policy debates, and her opinion columns have been published by ''

'' and

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, among others. She has been interviewed on ''

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'' and the '' Ezra Klein Show'', among other outlets.

Books

* ''How China Escaped the Poverty Trap'', Cornell University Press: Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2016 * ''China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption'', Cambridge University Press, 2020

Awards

* 2017

Peter Katzenstein Peter Joachim Katzenstein FBA (born February 17, 1945) is a German-American political scientist. He is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. Katzenstein has made influential contributions to the ...

Book Prize * 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for "high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to the most pressing issues of our times" * 2020

Theda Skocpol Theda Skocpol (born May 4, 1947) is an American sociologist and political scientist, who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She is a highly influential figure in both sociology and poli ...

Prize, awarded by the

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for "impactful contributions to the study of comparative politics" * 2022

Douglass North Douglass Cecil North (November 5, 1920 – November 23, 2015) was an American economist known for his work in economic history. He was the co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In the wor ...

Best Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics

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