Dr Ryan Manuel is an AsiaGlobal Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. He is currently completing a manuscript on the rules of the Chinese political system called How to Rule in China, which created large databases of Chinese govenrment and Party documentation and other primary source material in order to analyze how rules are made and followed in various parts of the Chinese political system. He was previously a Senior China Analyst with the Australian government (where he wrote for the Prime Minister and the National Security Committee) and a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.