Allen Yang Li is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the New School for Social Research, and a researcher at the India China Institute. Her research interests include rural-urban differences and comparisons in China, governance in China, policy studies, and international relations between China and the United States and East Asia. Her doctoral thesis was on the provision of public goods in China, and she used public toilets as a starting point to discuss the governance situation in China in depth. Her publications cover China’s governance, education, and the comparison of urban and rural public goods supply.