Interviews With Wu Jinglian, Shelley Wu and Wu’s Biographer

Nicholas R. Lardy, the distinguished economist at the Peterson Institute in Washington, calls Wu Jinglian the “single most important economist” during China’s 30 years of economic reforms. Mr. Wu has been a government researcher and adviser, a strong advocate of reform and also, increasingly, a strong critic of the way some of those reforms have been carried out. Here are translated excerpts from three interviews David Barboza conducted with Mr. Wu this year.