Katsuji Nakagane is a professor emeritus of The University of Tokyo. He also taught at Hitotsubashi University and Aoyama Gakuin University. He obtained his Ph.D. in international economics at The University of Tokyo in 1992. He was formerly president of the Japan Association of Asian Studies, president of the Japan Association of Comparative Economics Studies, president of the Japan Association of Chinese Economic and Management Studies, and editor-in-chief of the Developing Economies. He has published several books on the Chinese economy, development economics and systemic transition in Japanese, such as Studies on the Chinese Economy (University of Tokyo Press, 1992), Studies on the Development of the Chinese Economy (Yuhikaku, 1999), The Political Economy of Systemic Transitions (Nagoya University Press 2010), Contemporary China and Development Economics (Nagoya University Press,2012), and Mao Zedong—The Truth Falls Down from Heaven (Nagoya University Press, 2021). Most recently he edited the English language book Studies on the Chinese Economy During the Mao Era (Springer, 2023).