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Shaomin Li

Shaomin Li (Ph.D., Princeton University) is Eminent Scholar and Professor at Old Dominion University. He studies the global environment of business and institutional change. His research on rule-based versus relation-based governance has been featured by The Economist twice. His recent book is on “Bribery and Corruption in Weak Institutional Environments” (Cambridge University Press). In 2008, the Governor of Virginia presented him the Outstanding Faculty Award.

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When a Scholar Meets China’s Red Guards

by Shaomin Li | Oct 19, 2019

When a scholar meets soldiers, he should not argue with them, for he surely will lose. — Chinese proverb Recently I was invited by the “China Goes Global” conference in Winter Park, Florida, to give a keynote speech on the U.S.–China…

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Rule Over Law or Rule of Law? China’s IP Theft Dilemma

by Ilan Alon and Shaomin Li | Sep 12, 2019

While it has been commonly recognized that the theft of intellectual property (IP) by China is at the center of the trade war between the U.S. and China, one key fact is often ignored: China’s political economy is run by…