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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 Clinical Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. 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 supply chains, 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, her MBA from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and her BA from Wellesley College.
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April 19, 2021
China and Artificial Intelligence
By Sara Hsu
China has made technological strides in the AI field. Should that be viewed as a threat?
April 05, 2021
How Will China’s Sovereign Digital Currency Affect Fintech?
By Sara Hsu
China’s sovereign digital currency is likely to have a mainly positive impact on the fintech sector.
March 26, 2021
Can the US and China Agree to Disagree?
By Sara Hsu
Talks are a necessary but not sufficient step for repairing the China-U.S. relationship.
March 18, 2021
COVID-19 Made China’s Debt Problem Worse
By Sara Hsu
With debt soaring amid the pandemic, the government’s deleveraging struggle slogs on.
March 10, 2021
More Fintech Regulation on the Horizon in China
By Sara Hsu
The Chinese government continues to add oversight and structure to the rapidly growing sector.
March 03, 2021
The US-China Trade War Is Still Happening
By Sara Hsu
Four years and a new president later, U.S. tariffs on Chinese products remain.
September 26, 2018
As China's P2P Industry Stumbles, One Company Is Soaring
By Sara Hsu
Fincera Chairman Yonghui Li on thriving despite China’s P2P industry turbulence.
June 14, 2016
Some of China’s Zombie Firms May Finally Die
By Sara Hsu
The government issues a statement that appears to crack down on dormant firms.
June 05, 2016
Sustainably Affordable Health Care in China
By Sara Hsu
Can China balance patient affordability with sustainable service provision?
May 29, 2016
Foxconn: from Worker Suicides to Plastic Workers
By Sara Hsu
The controversial company is switching to robots, boding ill for China’s labor market.
May 20, 2016
China’s On-Again, Off-Again P2P Lending
By Sara Hsu
Activity in the peer-to-peer lending sector has surged at times, despite issues controlling risk.
May 12, 2016
What Does ‘L-Shaped’ Growth Imply for China?
By Sara Hsu
An unnamed official gives some hints about the official projection for China’s economy.