Department of Economics

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Department of Economics PhD Student in Economics
Qualifications
BA Hunan University (China), MSc LSE
Email address
665171@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
Industrialization and Rural Development in China.
Internal Supervisors
Dr Dic Lo

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Zhang worked as a research assistant and secretary to Professor WU Jinglian (former Deputy Director of the State Council’s System Reform Office of the P.R.C.) for 7-years, and has previously worked as an analyst in an Aisa-Pacific analytics firm.

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  • Zhang, Xinwen. 2023 (forthcoming). “Is China Socialist? Theorizing the Political Economy of China”, in Journal of Contemporary Asia.
  • Lou, Zhaohui, Shujie Yao, and Xinwen Zhang. 2022. “The Optimal Patent Portfolio of The Technology Standards Alliances in Innovation Competition”. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 58 (6). doi: 10.1080/1540496X.2021.1918544.

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  • The Political Economy of China
  • Rural Development
  • Growth Models
  • Industrialization
  • Financialization
  • Distribution

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