Lin Shangli (林尚立) is a protege and former student at Fudan University of Politburo Standing Committee
member and China's leading theoretician Wang Huning. He is the author of an early think-piece that touched
on ‘common prosperity’. Lin Shangli (林尚立) moved from a Vice Presidency at Fudan (where he had been a
student, and later junior colleague of Wang Huning) to Secretary General of the Central Policy Research Office
in 2017.
(Comment: Lin Shangli authored the book 'Institutions and development: political logic of self-confidence in
China’s institutions' (Zhonggong zhongyang dangxiao xuebao, 2 December 2016 [林尚立:'制度与发展:
中国制度自信的政治逻辑',中共中央党校学报,2016年12月 2日. Professor Dr. Lin Shangli was born in
Fuzhou in 1963. In 1981, he studied at the Department of International Politics, and after graduating in 1988
started his teaching career in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. He
became Associate Professor in 1993 and Professor in 1997. He received a Ph.D. from the School of Law at
Fudan University in 1998. He has been a visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Keio
University in Japan, Georgetown University in the U.S.A. and at the University of Munich in Germany. Apart
from Fudan, Prof. Lin is also a guest researcher at Shanghai CCP College and the Shanghai Administration
Institute, and Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Institute of East Asia, Shanghai. ).
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