Yuen Yuen Ang[a] is a Singaporean professor of political science and author of two books: How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016), named one of the "Best Books of 2017" by Foreign Affairs,[1][2] and China's Gilded Age (2020).
[5] Ang's research focuses on the interactions between industrial development, technological innovation, and political structures, with an emphasis on China.
She is also active in public policy debates, and her opinion columns have been published in Foreign Affairs and Project Syndicate, among others.
[8] In 2023, Ang was appointed Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University.
[10]: 30 In her 2016 book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Ang writes that the Chinese state harnessed weak institutions to develop markets and provided favorable conditions for institutions and markets to mutually develop.