LU Di (Lo Dic) is currently Professor of Political Economy at Lingnan College and Director of Political Economy Research Institute, Sun Yat-sen University. He has been with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London since 1994, from which he is on sabbatical leave in 2024 and 2025. LU Di is a political economist with specialisation in China and world development. He has published research articles both in English and Chinese in academic journals including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, China Quarterly, Journal of Economics Issues, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Third World Quarterly, Jingji Yanjiu (Economic Research Journal) and Zhengzhijingjixue Pinglun (China Review of Political Economy).

Research Areas

Development Economics
Chinese economy
Political economy of globalization

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Leeds, U.K. (1991-1994)
M.A.., Economics, University of East Anglia, U.K. (1990-1991)
B.SSc., Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, PRC (1983-1987)

Professional Experiences

Lecturer, Economics Department, SOAS University of London, U.K. (1994-present)

Publications

1. Lo Dic (Lu Di), Niangjijia Nyangchak and Fanqi Lin (2025), “China and renewables capitalism in the Green Transitions”, Development and Change, forthcoming.
2. Lo Dic (Lu Di) (2025), “The structural-institutional dynamics and challenges in China’s economic growth”, Zhengzhi Jingjixue Pinglun (China Review of Political Economy), 16 (2): 111-125.
3. Lo Dic (Lu Di) and Shaozhi Zhong (2024), “China and Marxist Political Economy confronting world capitalism: revisiting the ‘social nature’ controversy of the 1930s”, Research in Political Economy, 40: 19-36.
4. Lo Dic (Lu Di), Li Sipei, Gao Ling, and Li Wen (2022), “Accounting for China’s economic growth by incorporating changes in the work intensity of labor”, Shijie Jingji (World Economy), 7: 3-26.
5. Lo Dic (Lu Di), Lin Gao, and Yuchen Lin (2022), “State ownership and innovations: lessons from the mixed-ownership reforms of China’s listed companies”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 60: 302-214.
6. Lo Dic (Lu Di) and Yuning Shi (2021), “China versus the US in the pandemic crisis: governance and politics confronting systemic challenges”, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42 (1-2): 90-100.
7. Lo Dic (Lu Di) (2020), “State-owned enterprises in China’s economic transformation: institutional functionality and credibility in alternative perspectives”, Journal of Economic Issues, 54 (3): 813-837.
8. Lo Dic (Lu Di) (2020), “Towards a conception of China’s systematic impact on late development”, Third World Quarterly, 41 (5): 860-880.
9. Lo Dic (Lu Di) (2018), “Consideration on China’s New Normal economic growth: beyond partial explanations”, China and International Relations, 6 (1): 73-94.
10. Lo Dic (Lu Di), Fuhai Hong and Guicai Li (2016), “Assessing the role of inward foreign direct investment in Chinese economic development, 1990-2007: towards a synthesis of alternative views”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 37: 107-120.
11. Lo Dic (Lu Di) (2018), “Consideration on China’s New Normal economic growth: beyond partial explanations”, China and International Relations, 6 (1): 73-94.
12. Lo Dic (Lu Di) (2012), Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization: Studies in the Political Economy of Institutions and Late Development, Basingstoke and London, Palgrave Macmillan.
13. Lo Dic (Lu Di) (2001), China’s Transformational Growth: A Structural-Institutional Analysis, Beijing, Economic Science Press.
14. Lo Dic (Lu Di) (1997), Market and Institutional Regulation in Chinese Industrialization, 1978-94. Basingstoke and London, Macmillan; New York, St. Martin’s.

Research Grants

National Social Science Foundation of China: “the political economy of the Socialist System with Chinese Characteristics in the perspectives of global-comparative studies”, Grant No. 24&ZD014, 2025-2028.

Teaching

Development Economics (graduate)
China and World Development (undergraduate)