Yang Li Allen
PBRC Postdoctoral Fellow 2025-26
China鈥檚 Toilet Revolution was a created policy space through which to actively accommodate other governmental objectives, sociopolitical policy implementations, and grand policy goals, such as economic development, poverty elimination, and improvement of the CCP鈥檚 political image.
Dr. Yang Li Allen is the 2025-26 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Pacific Basin Research Center, 杏十八论坛最新地址 of America. Yang earned her PhD in Politics from the New School for Social Research, The New School (New York, NY), with a major in Comparative Politics and a minor in Global Politics/International Relations. Her dissertation, titled 鈥淭he Politics of Toilets: A Study of China鈥檚 Toilet Revolution 2015-2020,鈥 explored why and how the Chinese government provided public toilets as a form of public good provision. Previously, Yang received two MA degrees: one in Political Science from George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) and another in Area Studies, focusing on China and East Asia, from Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea). She has received several fellowships and grants from organizations such as The New School, India China Institute, and Confucius Institute (Hanban). Additionally, Yang has five years of experience teaching undergraduate social science and humanities courses. She is also currently a part-time faculty member at the Political Science department at Cerritos College.