Kai KAJITANI is a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Kobe University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Kobe University in 2001, specializes in modern Chinese economics. His research interests also include development economics and comparative economics. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, from September 2005 to June 2006. He is the author of Political Economy of Reform in China, Springer (with Tomoki KAMO), Lectures on Chinese Economy, Chuou Koron Shinsha, 2018 (in Japanese), Chinese-Style Capitalism Evolving beyond Dual Trap: Empirical Studies on Ambiguous Institution (eds. with Hiroyuki KATO), Minerva Shobo, 2016, (in Japanese), The Fiscal and Financial System in Modern China: The Economics of Globalization and Central-Local Relations, Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai, 2011, (in Japanese), and other works.