DALI L. YANG Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, USA. He is the author of Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and The Politics of Governance in China (2004); Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine (1996) and Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China(1997). He is also editor or co-editor of several other volumes and the author of many articles, including The United States and the Rise of China and India by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Yang is the founding faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, China, and of the University of Chicago Confucius Institute. He was previously chairman of the Political Science Department, director of the Center for East Asian Studies, and director of the Committee on International Relations, all at the University of Chicago. He is a current member of the Committee of 100, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the China Committee of the City of Chicago Sister Cities Committee. He received his PhD from Princeton.