Dong Yan is currently assistant professor at School of Economics, SUFE. Prior to this, he received his doctoral degree from University of California, Los Angeles in September 2019, and was Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His main research interests involve histories of economic ideas, economic history and fiscal-financial history, with a focus in late nineteenth and early twentieth Chinese ideas on public finance and political economy, as well as interactions between these ideas and contemporary fiscal-financial institutions. Prof. Yan is preparing his book manuscript “Sinews of Paper: Public Debt and Chinese Political Economy, 1850 – 1914”, examining the adaptation of modern public debt in late 19th and early 20th Century China.
