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Yuen Yuen Ang

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Yuen Yuen Ang is the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for “impactful empirical, theoretical and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics.” She is also named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to the most pressing issues of our times.” Ang's first book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016), is acclaimed for its “game changing” and “field shifting" research on adaptive processes of economic-institutional change. It received the Peter Katzenstein Prize in Political Economy and Viviana Zelizer Prize in Economic Sociology, and was named "Best of Books 2017" by Foreign Affairs. Her second book, China’s Gilded Age: the Paradox of Economic Boom & Vast Corruption, is released by Cambridge University Press in 2020. It was featured in The Economist, The Wire China, and The Diplomat. Professor Ang was profiled in The New York Times, CGTN’s Visionaries, and the Chinese-language outlets, Jiemian (界面), Pengpai (澎湃), and CNPolitics (政见). She holds a PhD from Stanford University.
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