Sources

A CV is a static list of publications. It records outputs, but it cannot show how ideas connect, evolve, travel, and accumulate across time.

For a more dynamic representation, this Sources page complements the Glossary and Media & Uptake pages by providing open-access links to the sources cited across Yuen Yuen Ang’s intellectual forest, including books, articles, essays, lectures, and speech transcripts.

Where the Glossary defines Ang’s concepts and situates them within the AIM paradigm, Sources provides the materials where these ideas were first articulated or demonstrated. They are either open access or linked to SSRN, where they can be downloaded for free.

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Books

Ang, Y.Y. (2020) China's Gilded Age

Ang, Y.Y. (2016) How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. https://www.yuenyuenang.org/how-china-escaped-the-poverty-trap

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Ang, Y.Y. (2026) "AIM (Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral) Political Economy: Introduction and Applications." Oxford Development Studies.

Ang, Y.Y. (2023) "Ambiguity and Clarity in China's Adaptive Policy Communication." The China Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741023000826

Ang, Y.Y., with Wei and Jia. (2023) "The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guiding Funds in China." The China Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741023000280

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Adaptive Political Economy: Toward a New Paradigm." World Politics. https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.2025.a954433

Ang, Y.Y. (2020) "When COVID-19 Meets Centralized, Personalized Power." Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0872-3

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Ambiguity and Clarity in China's Adaptive Policy Communication." The China Quarterly.

Ang, Y.Y., with Wei and Jia. (2025) "The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guiding Funds in China." The China Quarterly.

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Adaptive Political Economy: Toward a New Paradigm." World Politics.

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Unbundling Corruption: Revisiting Six Questions on Corruption." The China Quarterly.

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "When COVID-19 Meets Centralized, Personalized Power." The China Quarterly.

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Domestic Flying Geese: Industrial Transfer and Delayed Policy Diffusion in China." The China Quarterly.

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Beyond Weber: Conceptualizing an Alternative Ideal-Type of Bureaucracy in Developing Contexts." World Politics.

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Fairy Tales of Western Development: How Fiscal States Actually Arose in America & China." The China Quarterly.

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development." World Politics.

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Why the Polycrisis Can Also be a Polytunity." Development Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.70032

Ang, Y.Y., with Jia, Yang, Huang. (2023) "China's Low-Productivity Innovation Drive: Evidence from Patents." Comparative Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231209960

Ang, Y.Y. (2020) "Unbundling Corruption: Revisiting Six Questions on Corruption." Global Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.12036

Ang, Y.Y. (2018) "Domestic Flying Geese: Industrial Transfer and Delayed Policy Diffusion in China." The China Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741018000516

Book Chapters

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Fairy Tales of Western Development." https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5661111

Policy & Intellectual Essays

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "The 2024 Nobel Laureates Are Not Only Wrong About China, But Also About the West." The Ideas Letter

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "The Moral of the China Story." YouTube

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Polytunity: The Future of Development."

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "How Exceptional is China's Crony Capitalist Boom?"

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "China's Economic Paradox."

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Mismeasuring Corruption."

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "The False Choice Between Neoliberalism and Interventionism."

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "The False Dichotomy of Autocracy and Democracy."

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Unbundling Corruption: Why It Matters and How to Do It."

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Normatively Weak Institutions Can Be Functionally Strong: A Surprising Lesson from China."

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Three Fallacies of Embracing Complexity."

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Turning Polycrisis into Polytunity."

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Development in a Time of Disruption."

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Complex Doesn't Mean Complicated—and What it Means for Political Economy."

Policy Reports

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Turning Polycrisis into Polytunity." UNDP. https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2025-06/undp-turning-polycrisis-into-politunity.pdf

Ang, Y.Y. (2021) "Testimony on U.S.-China Relations at the CCP's Centennial." U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2021-01/January_28_2021_Hearing_Transcript.pdf

Ang, Y.Y. (2016) "Integrating Big Data & Thick Data to Transform Public Services Delivery." Partnership for Public Service. https://www.businessofgovernment.org/sites/default/files/Integrating%20Big%20Data%20and%20Thick%20Data%20to%20Transform%20Public%20Services%20Delivery_0.pdf

Ang, Y.Y. (2022) "Testimony on CCP Decision-Making and the 20th Party Congress." U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Working Papers

Ang, Y.Y. (2024) "Creation of the Chinese Adaptive Policy Communication Corpus (ACL 2025)." https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.08986

Op-eds & Blogs

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "The World Order After 2025." Polytunity Newsletter. https://polytunity.substack.com/p/polytunity-in-the-post-2025-world

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "The Global Polytunity." Polytunity Newsletter. https://polytunity.substack.com/p/the-global-polytunity-9eb

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Doing Development in the Polycrisis." UNDP Blog. https://www.undp.org/blog/doing-development-polycrisis

Ang, Y.Y. (2020) "The Problem with Zero: How Xi's Pandemic Policy Created a Crisis for the Regime."

Ang, Y.Y. (2023) "How Resilient Is the CCP?"

Ang, Y.Y. (2019) "The Clash of Two Gilded Ages."

Ang, Y.Y. (2023) "Beyond Elite Innovation."

Ang, Y.Y. (2020) "Decoding Xi Jinping: How Will China's Bureaucrats Interpret His Call for Common Prosperity?"

Ang, Y.Y. (2020) "The Robber Barons of Beijing: Can China Survive Its Gilded Age?"

Ang, Y.Y. (2021) "The Myth of the Tech Race."

Ang, Y.Y. (2018) "Demystifying China's Belt and Road: The Struggle to Define China's Project of the Century."

Ang, Y.Y. (2017) "The Real China Model: It's Not What You Think It Is."

Ang, Y.Y. (2015) "Autocracy with Chinese Characteristics: Beijing's Behind-the-Scenes Reforms."

Lectures & Video

Ang, Y.Y. (2023) "The Economics of China." INET Lecture Series. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/videos/economics-of-china

Ang, Y.Y. (2023) "Three Chinas — Episode 1." YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq39i84l8MU

Ang, Y.Y. (2023) "Deng's Hidden Political Revolution — Episode 2, The Economics of China." YouTube. https://youtu.be/Qg7MEWXyMmo?si=H5rGjTC1z084Eyta

Speeches

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Turning Polycrisis into Polytunity." Keynote Speech at the DSA Conference. Oxford Development Studies.

Interviews

Ang, Y.Y. (2026) "Complex Doesn't Mean Complicated—and Why It Matters for Political Economy." World Politics. https://wpj.princeton.edu/news/2026/complex-doesn%E2%80%99t-mean-complicated%E2%80%94and-why-it-matters-political-economy

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "How China Can Turn Polycrisis into Polytunity." South China Morning Post.

Ang, Y.Y. (2023) "Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang." Polity. https://doi.org/10.1086/725364

Ang, Y.Y. (2023) "There's Been a Revolution in How China Is Governed." The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-yuen-yuen-ang.html

Ang, Y.Y. (2021) "Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China?" Freakonomics. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-the-u-s-really-less-corrupt-than-china-update/

Meta Infrastructure

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "The AIM Glossary." https://www.yuenyuenang.org/glossary

(2025) Polytunity. https://polytunity.substack.com/

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "What is a Paradigm?" https://www.yuenyuenang.org/paradigm

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "Polytunity." https://www.yuenyuenang.org/polytunity

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "AIM: Adaptive, Inclusive & Moral." https://www.yuenyuenang.org/aim

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) "APE: Adaptive Political Economy." https://www.yuenyuenang.org/adaptive-pe

(2026) "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap: Ten Years On." 10th Anniversary Blog Series. JHU Agora Institute.

(2025) "The Polytunity Project." Faculty Lab. JHU Agora Institute.