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Dr. Cheng Li

Non-resident fellow & Director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center

Dr. Cheng Li is director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. Dr. Li is also a distinguished fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at University of Toronto. He is the author of the new book Middle Class Shanghai Reshaping US-China Engagement (May 2021), and the editor (with author Li Chunling) of the forthcoming volume in the Brookings China Thinker’s Series China’s Youth: Increasing Diversity amid Persistent Inequality (September 2021).