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Yang Chen (BA, MBA, Ph.D) is Lecturer of Contemporary Chinese Studies of CEAS. An economics graduate of Nankai University, Tianjin, she worked with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan before she came to the UK and gained a Phd at Leicester University. Yang was formerly senior lecturer in Economics at Northampton Business School and Assistant Director of the China and Transitional Economy Research Centre, the University of Northampton.
Yang’s principal research interest is in the study of institutional change of transitional economies. The picture Yang has sketched in her researches suggests that transition of China has been a creative process, and new organisational models and social economic institutions will continue to be created and unfold on the foundations of the institutions that preceded them. However, development in the past three decade has also created problems that threat the sustainability of China to construct a society at ease with itself. Her recent research focuses on the question of institutional constraints on China’s transition to sustainability .
Yang has also published in the areas of the ‘New Economy’, corporate governance and rural development in contemporary China. She is the board member of Chinese Economic Association (UK)
Yang is Programme Director for the new MSc in East Asian Development and the Global Economy
Selected Publications
Chen, Yang (2007), Ownership in China’s Transitional Economy - The Limitations of Conventional Property Rights Theory, Mellen Press.
Sanders, Richard and Chen, Yang (eds) (2007), China’s Post-Reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth, Routledge
Chen Yang, Richard Sanders (2007), “From Party/State Regulation to “Networking Executives”: The Crisis of Exclusive Corporate Governance Reform in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, November Issue, 2007
Richard Sanders, Chen Yang and Cao Yiying (2007), “Marginalisation in the countryside: the question of rural poverty”, in Marginalisation in China: Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation, pp.15-34, Ashgate
Chen Yang, Richard Sanders (2005), “On Privatisation and Property Rights – Should China Go Down the Road of Outright Privatisation”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 3 (3), pp.231-246
Chen Yang, Richard Sanders (2005), “Crossing Which River and Feeling Which Stones – China’s Transition to the ‘New Economy’”, Routledgecurzon Studies on The Chinese Economy 4. pp.308 – 332, Routledge Curzon: London & New York
