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Sara Hsu
Dr. Sara Hsu is an expert in Chinese fintech, economic development, informal finance, and shadow banking. She is the author of “China’s Fintech Explosion.”
Sara Hsu is a Visiting Scholar at Fudan University. Prior to that, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Dr. Hsu specializes in Chinese fintech, economic development, informal finance, and shadow banking. She has published one of the only English-language books on the topic of Chinese fintech, “China’s Fintech Explosion,” and informal finance, “Informal Finance in China: American and Chinese Perspectives,” as well as one of the only Chinese-language books on Chinese shadow banking. She has also published a number of articles and books on the topics of sustainable development, financial crises, and trade.
Sara Hsu earned her Ph.D. from the University of Utah and her BA from Wellesley College.

March 03, 2021
The US-China Trade War Is Still Happening
By Sara Hsu

September 26, 2018
As China's P2P Industry Stumbles, One Company Is Soaring
By Sara Hsu

June 14, 2016
Some of China’s Zombie Firms May Finally Die
By Sara Hsu

June 05, 2016
Sustainably Affordable Health Care in China
By Sara Hsu

May 29, 2016
Foxconn: from Worker Suicides to Plastic Workers
By Sara Hsu

May 20, 2016
China’s On-Again, Off-Again P2P Lending
By Sara Hsu

May 12, 2016
What Does ‘L-Shaped’ Growth Imply for China?
By Sara Hsu

May 02, 2016
China’s Impressive Auto Industry
By Sara Hsu

April 24, 2016
China’s Steel Glut Still a Problem
By Sara Hsu

April 14, 2016
Is China’s Great Firewall a Trade Barrier?
By Sara Hsu

April 05, 2016
Any Luxe Left for China?
By Sara Hsu
