Minxin Pei

Minxin Pei (Chinese: 裴敏欣; pinyin: Péi Mǐnxīn) is an expert on governance in the People's Republic of China, U.S.-Asia relations, and democratization in developing nations. He currently serves as the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College and is a non-resident senior fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He was formerly a senior associate with the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Pei earned his bachelor's degree in English from the Shanghai International Studies University, and a master's degree and PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. In addition, he holds an M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.

Pei has been a contributor to a number of periodicals, including The China Quarterly, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, China Today, The Diplomat, and Foreign Affairs, and a frequent guest commentator on CNN, and National Public Radio, among others.

In 2008, he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Prospect magazine.

Following is a partial list of publications:

• From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 1994)
• China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006)
• The Color of China (The National Interest, March 2009)
• My Trip to Asia (Claremont Book Review, October 2011)
• China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay" (Harvard University Press October 3, 2016)

Articles in edited books:

• When Illusion Meets Reality: The Evolving Relationship Between China and Europe, in: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (ed.): Europe: Insights from the Outside (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär/Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 5), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011