Join the LSE Professor and World Bank consultant Keyu Jin for a myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy.

“Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker.” ―Tony Blair

China’s economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the China that most Westerners picture is only a rough and in many ways inaccurate sketch.

Keyu Jin is here to change that. A world-renowned economist who was born in China, educated in the U.S., Keyu is now a tenured professor at the London School of Economics. Fluent in both Eastern and Western cultures, and a voice of the new generation of Chinese who represent a radical break from the past, she is uniquely poised to explain how China became the most successful economic story of our time, as it has shifted from primarily state-owned enterprise to an economy that is thriving in entrepreneurship, and participation in the global economy.

China’s economic realm is colourful and lively, filled with paradoxes and conundrums, and Keyu believes that by understanding the Chinese model, the people, the culture and history in its true perspective, one can reconcile what may appear to be contradictions to the Western eye.

She joins us with an illuminating account of a burgeoning world power, its past, and its potential future.