Despite China’s large-scale anti-corruption campaign, China’s GDP has shown notable growth in recent years, with an average of 7.1 percent year-on-year from 2012 to 2019. 

In her book, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption, Yuen Yuen Ang challenges this common narrative, examining different types of corruption and explaining the paradoxical relationship between corruption and growth, ultimately answering a very important question: How can China’s economy have had such growth along with corruption? What risks come with this paradox and how will it change in a post-pandemic world?

 About the Author 

Yuen Yuen Ang is a political scientist and expert on China and emerging economies. She is named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to the most pressing issues of our times.” Ang is also the author of an award-winning book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016), acclaimed as “game changing” and “field shifting.” Her second book China’s Gilded Age: the Paradox of Economic Boom & Vast Corruption (2020), is featured in The Economist, The Wire China and The Diplomat.

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