Hanzhi Deng (Ph.D. political science) is an assistant professor and research fellow at the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (IAS-Fudan). He received a bachelor's degree from the School of Management at Fudan University, and both master's and doctoral degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the United Kingdom. His research fields include political economy, public economics, and political-economic history. The primary research interests focus on public finance, institutional transition, central-local relations, government-business relations, and related public policies, with a particular emphasis on theoretical and empirical issues concerning China's political economy since modern times. He has presided over an Young Scientists Fund project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, participated in three projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China and the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Foundation, and received funding from two national and Ministry of Education talent programs. Research findings have been published in top Chinese and international journals, such as The Lancet, the Journal of Economic History, and Open Times, etc.