Minxin Pei is a political scientist who specializes in China's modern development. He is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California, and a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. His 2006 book, China’s Trapped Transition (2006), explored the difficulties of reforming the country’s political and economic systems. Later, in China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (2016), he looked at how corruption had grown rampan