1. Cui Zhiyuan, born in Beijing in 1963, is a professor at the School of Public Policy and Management in Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a leading member of the Chinese New Left, even besides he sees the Chinese New Left as neoauthoritarian, through his work on alternatives to neo-liberal capitalism.
Cui Zhiyuan then went on to publish the book Nanjie Village, which along with his previous publications earned him the reputation as one of the founding members of China's New Left movement.
Cui Zhiyuan was one of the first scholars to introduce game theory to China.
Cui Zhiyuan is an admirer of James Meade's work on liberal socialism, reflected in his article Xiaokang Socialism: A Petty-Bourgeois Manifesto.
Cui Zhiyuan edited Politics: The Central Texts, the selection of key texts from Roberto Mangabeira Unger's three-volume Politics.
In 2011, Cui Zhiyuan published an article on Zhang Pengchun's role in drafting the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
In 2015, Cui Zhiyuan was invited to the International Conference on Basic Income held in Seoul to give a keynote speech concerning social dividend.
In 2003, Cui Zhiyuan was invited to the London School of Economics to give the Ralph Miliband Lecture titled "The Bush Doctrine and Neoconservatism: A Chinese Perspective".
In 2014, Cui Zhiyuan was invited to give the Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture "Chinese Reform in light of James Meade's Liberal Socialism" at Oxford University.
Cui Zhiyuan argues that this model could end China's dependence on exports and savings, reduce the growing economic divide between rural and urban areas, and stimulate private business by way of public ownership and state planning.
Cui Zhiyuan is close to Chongqing's mayor Huang Qifan and served as the associate director of the State Asset Management Committee of the Chongqing government from 2010 to 2011.
Cui Zhiyuan's views are discussed in the essay collections One China, Many Paths and Conditional Democracy: The Contemporary Debate on Political Reform in Chinese Universities.
Cui Zhiyuan has been critical of recent privatizations of state assets, and has called for more democracy within the party.
In 2015, Cui Zhiyuan started a research project called "Experimental Governance: Its Promise and Limits in China" in collaboration with Charles Sabel of Columbia University Law School, a leading scholar on experimental governance.