title: Yu Keping
text: # Yu Keping
  
  Yu Keping (Chinese: 俞可平) is the Director of the Center for Chinese Government Innovations at Peking University. He is a noted scholar having produced many noted books including the widely noted Democracy is a Good Thing. In addition to his academic work he has also acted as an advisor on political reforms to the Chinese government.
  
  Yu is also the New World Senior Fellow in the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  
  ## Writings
  
  Books
  
  * Yu, K. (2010). Democracy and the Rule of Law in China Leiden: Brill
  * Yu, K. (2009). Democracy is a good thing: Essays on politics, society, and culture in contemporary China. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press.
  