Muyang Chen joins Erik and Keren to talk all things Chinese development finance, including her recent book, The Latecomer's Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China's Development Finance (2024).

Muyang Chen is an Assistant Professor of International Development at Peking University's School of International Studies. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of development, political economy, and international relations. She has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University, a visiting scholar at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University.


Recommendations:

Muyang:

• "Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective" by Alexander Gerschenkron (1962)

Keren:

• "雍正王朝 The Era of Emperor Yongzheng" (drama series, can watch on YouTube)

Erik:

• Great Photo, Lovely Life (2023)

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