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Yuen Yuen Ang is associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan, where she is also a faculty associate of the Center for Chinese Studies and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. Ang’s research aims to advance our understanding of development as a non-linear, adaptive process, using China as a primary case. Part of this agenda involves challenging the assumption that a universally best standard of institutions exists. Her work shows that normatively weak institutions can be functionally strong.

Her book How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, 2016) won the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding first book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy.” ...more

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	How China Escaped the Poverty Trap 4.31 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption 4.19 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To extinguish uncertainty is to extinguish possibilities, both terrible and marvelous.”
― Yuen Yuen Ang, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

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