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Yuen Yuen Ang is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption (2020). She is currently writing a new book, The Age of Disruption: Toward an Adaptive Political Economy, with Cambridge University Press. Follow her on Twitter at @yuenyuenang.
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