I am Associate Professor and GLP-Ming Z. Mei Chair of Chinese Economics and Trade at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. My research and teaching interests include political economy, comparative politics, and international relations, with a regional focus on China and East Asia.

My research focuses primarily on the reform and global expansion of China’s state-owned enterprises. I also study the leadership and political mobility of Chinese state-owned enterprise executives, the politics of Chinese economic reform, and overseas investment.

My work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Education through the Fulbright-Hays and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, and the Chinese Scholarship Council, among others.

I have been a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a China-U.S. Scholars Program Fellow, and a China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Before coming to Indiana University, I was An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania. I also worked for International Crisis Group in Beijing. 

I hold a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, a MA in International Relations from Tsinghua University, and a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Wellesley College.