Ye Tan
Ye Tan (; born 1956) is a Chinese economist and a research professor at the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 1988. In 2012, she was appointed as an adjunct professor at Peking University School of Economics. She is a member of the NSFC peer councillor, member of the 19th-century Japanese Society for Economic and Social Studies, and vice president of the Chinese Association of historic Economic Thought. She is the director of the Academy of History of Chinese Economic Thought. Education and work. Ye was born in Beijing in 1956. She earned  Bachelor of History in Hebei University (1982), Master of Arts in Wuhan University (1985), Ph.D in Economics in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1988). Since 1988, she has served as a researcher and a professor at the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has served as a researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, a researcher at the International Exchange Foundation, member of the Japan 19th Century Economic and Social Thought Research Association, and vice president of the Chinese Society of Economic Thought History.  In 2012, she was awarded the  title of Great Wall Scholar of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 2012, she was appointed as an adjunct professor at Peking University School of Economics. Research. Ye's research interests include the history of Chinese economic thoughts, the history of economic thoughts in the Song Dynasty, the history of Chinese economic history, the history of economic categories, and the study of East Asian economic thoughts. The Chinese economic thought is an independent discipline of theoretical economics in China. It also has an interdisciplinary comprehensive nature, involving economics, philosophy, history, culture, society and other disciplines. It studies the development  of China's economic thought since ancient times and today. Her research steps are: based on the study of Chinese economic thought history and the innovation of subject basic theory, and then develop into the study of economic concepts, especially traditional economic concepts and modernization, and then through specific comparison of East Asian modernization models. The development of the economic concept of China and Japan and its influence on the modernization of the two countries are typical, and the history of China's economic thought itself is deepened and improved. She focused the studies about the combination between culture and  economy and raised the new theory "Economiculturology". Since 1989, she did the economic projects in partnership with Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other foreign academic institutes such as She is the director of the projects "Traditional Economic ideas and Modernization", "A comparative study of Economic Thought in China and Japan", "the studies of East Asian economic thoughts" and "Sustainable development plan for western China" etc.