Welcome! I am a PhD Candidate in the Government Department at Cornell University. I am broadly interested in politics of development, political and economic institutions, and state-business relations, with a regional focus on China and East Asia.

My dissertation projects examines how China is re-inventing key market institutions in the backdrop of increasing structural contradictions in its land-based developmental model. I uncover how traditionally non-financial state corporations are transforming into financial machines and investigate the political and economic impact this unleashes on existing economic actors and market institutions.

My research has been supported by Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship,  Lee Teng-hui fellowship from Cornell East Asian Program, and Cornell Contemporary China Initiative, among others.

I hold a MA in Social Sciences from University of Chicago, a MA in Comparative Political Systems from Peking University, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Yonsei University.