I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Princeton University and affiliated with the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China and the M. S. Chadha Center for Global India. I am also an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation.

My research focuses on industrial policy, clean technology, and infrastructure in China and India. My work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Current Sociology, Asian Survey, and the Chinese Journal of Sociology. I am currently writing a book on China’s industrial policy aimed at scholars and policymakers.

My previous work drew on two years of fieldwork in China and India comparing railway infrastructure development between these two countries. I have also published work on Chinese state-owned enterprises and Indian state bureaucracy.

I write a popular newsletter called High Capacity on industrial policy, clean technology, and infrastructure, particularly in China and India. I have been interviewed by international media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The New Republic, Fortune, Vox, MIT Technology Review, Harvard Business Review, the Belt and Road podcast, India’s Economic Times, Brazil’s Folha de S.Paulo, Financial Times’ FDI Intelligence, The Wire China, Voice of America, and Le Monde.

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Email: kylechan [at] princeton [dot] edu