China’s Rise and Its Global Implications

Shaoguang Wang is a senior research fellow at Institute of State Governance, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan), and an emeritus chair professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.   He studied for his LL.B. at Peking University and his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He taught at Tijiao High School in Wuhan from 1972-1977, Yale University from 1990 to 2000, the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1999 to 2017, and Tsinghua University from 2017-2020. He has authored and co-authored around 40 books and more than 100 journal articles in Chinese and English. His research interests include the history of democracy, comparative governance, comparative political economy, fiscal politics, and welfare politics.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1 Revelation: State Capacity and Economic Development.- Chapter 2 Foundation Laying: From Old China to New China.- Chapter 3 Exploration: From New China’s First 30 Years to Next 40 Years.- Chapter 4 Adjust and Control: From Planning to Programming.- Chapter 5 Pillar: State-owned Enterprises and Industrialization.- Chapter 6 Direction: From Economic to Social Policies.- Chapter 7 Leapfrog: Striding from Middle Income to High Income.- Appendix.