EVENTS

This seminar seeks to focus on Dr. Wang’s recent book, Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State, which provides a fresh account of China’s economic reform over the past four decades, highlighting the pivotal role of mid-level bureaucrats in shaping China’s development trajectories and global ambition. In contrast to the conventional view of China’s development strategy as linear, top-down, and coherent, this book uncovers the contradictions and conflicts inherent in China’s economic policy paradigms, rooted in the social logic of bureaucratic competition, generational shifts, and network coalitions in the Chinese state.

Speaker

Yingyao Wang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She works at the intersection of economic sociology, political sociology, and development. She has published articles on corruption, taxation, and China’s industrial policy and financial market development in journals such as Socio-Economic Review, Review of International Political Economy, British Journal of Sociology, and Big Data & Society. Currently, she is working on projects related to China’s outward foreign direct investment, how China is studied in other parts of the world, and the relationship between corruption, finance, and the making of market frontiers.

Chair

Biswajit Dhar is a distinguished Professor at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, and formerly taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was Director General of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries and played a key role in establishing and leading the Centre for WTO Studies. He has represented India in major multilateral negotiations, including the WTO, UNFCCC, WIPO, and CBD, and has served on expert groups for various international organisations. Professor Dhar has been a consultant to UNCTAD, UNESCAP, UNDP, ILO, WHO, and the South Centre, and is widely published in national and international journals. He is a regular columnist, has served on the Board of Directors of the EXIM Bank of India, and advises several trade and IPR-focused institutions.

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