Angela Huyue Zhang is an expert in Chinese law at the University of Hong Kong. Zhang attended Peking University and earned three law degrees from the University of Chicago Law School, where she studied with former Judge Richard A. Posner. Before joining the University of Hong Kong, she taught at King’s College London and practiced law in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She once served as a bankruptcy lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York and as an antitrust attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. In her recently published book, Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation, Zhang looks at the way in which China regulates antitrust issues is reshaping global business practices.
Angela Zhang.Illustration by Kate Copeland
Q: Some of your earliest research was about growing opposition to Chinese investment in the U.S. and Europe. How did this become the basis of so much of your work?
A: Yes, some of