Join the SCRC for a Chinese Politics Happy Hour with Prof. Ling Chen, moderated by Prof. Andrew Mertha, George, and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies Inaugural Director of the SAIS Global China Research Center as they discuss “How institutions Bounce Back: Untangling Difficult Reforms in China’s State-Owned Enterprises.”
Professor Ling Chen studies political economy and state-business relations, as well as economic, tax, and industrial policies in China. She is the author of Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China (Stanford University Press, 2018). Her work has been accepted by or published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, The China Journal, Politics & Society, and World Development. Chen’s research has been funded by institutions such as the Social Science Research Council (Andrew Mellon Foundation), Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, and Stanford University. She has been selected as a 2021-2022 Wilson China Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson Center. Before joining SAIS, she was a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and a Rajawali Fellow at the Ash Center of Harvard Kennedy School.