I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University.

My research interests include (1) political causes and consequences of population aging as well as social inequality, stratification, (im)mobility, and exclusion; (2) redistribution, social welfare, and health policies; (3) public opinion and policy preferences under authoritarian rule. The regional focus of my research is China and East Asia.

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on authoritarian politics, comparative political economy, political economy of East Asia, and Chinese politics. I am an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Chinese Studies and Global Asias at Rutgers University and an associate in the China Center for Social Policy at Columbia University.

Before joining Rutgers, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at University of Pennsylvania. I received a PhD of Political Science from Columbia University. I got BA degrees in Political Science and Economics, and a MA degree in Political Science from Peking University.

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