Minxin Pei

thumb|Pei in 2017 Minxin Pei (Chinese: 裴敏欣; pinyin: Péi Mǐnxīn; born December 10, 1957) is a Chinese-American political scientist. He is the current editor of the China Leadership Monitor. He is a specialist on governance in China, U.S.–East Asia relations, mass surveillance in China, as well as democratization in developing nations. He is currently the Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He was formerly a senior associate in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Quotes about Pei Chinese-American political scientist Pei Minxin’s “The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism” (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2026) is an autopsy report on a failing idea that few were willing to address: the belief that markets would weaken authoritarianism, that billionaires would push the Chinese Communist Party toward democracy, and that a rising middle class would seek elections rather than larger apartments. Pei dissects the myth with scholarly precision and the dry humor of someone who has watched Western policymakers cling to the same fantasies for 40 years. Massimo Introvigne, "“The Broken China Dream”: Xi Jinping, the West, and the Prosperity Trap", Bitter Winter (March 4, 2026) External links Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Political scientists from the United States Category:Academics from the United States Category:Editors from the United States Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:People from Shanghai Category:Harvard University alumni