Professor LI Peilin:
Born in 1955 in Ji'nan, Shandong Province, earned his Ph.D. from University of Paris I in 1987. He is a Director of the Institute of Sociology and Director of the Department of Sociology of Graduate School of CASS. His main research areas are enterprise organization, social stratification, institutional transformation and development. His major published works include: The Transformation of Chinese Social Structure: A Sociological Analysis of the Economic Institutional Reform (1995); Chinese Enterprises in Transition (1992); The Social Exchange Explanation of TVES (1993); The Revolution in the Ideas of Modern Western Society (1993); Strata and Class in the New Age in China (Ed.) (1995); Social Development in the New Age in China, 1991-1995 (1997); Analysis of the Social Cost of State-owned Enterprises (1999); Employment and Institutional Change(2001),The End Of Villages(2004).

 
Ms. WANG Xiaoxi:
Born 1954 in Hubei, she graduated from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Currently, she is a Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology. She is in charge of the administration in general of the Institute. Also she is Vice-Editor in Chief for the annual Year Book for the Chinese Sociology. Main Publication: Dictionary of Post-Modernism (2004, Vice-Editor in Chief); Annual Year Book for the Chinese Sociology 2004 (2004, Vice-Editor in Chief.

Professor CHEN Guangjin:
Born in 1962 in Liling, Hunan Province. He had his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1997. He is a vice director of the Institute of Sociology of Cass. His academic researches are focused on rural sociology, social stratification and mobility (especially private entrepreneur class research), social development. His main publications include: Social Mobility in Contemporary China (co-author, 2005), The Basic Problems of Chinese Rural Modernization (co-author, 2004), Deng Xiaoping’s Theory and the Changes of Social Class Structure in Contemporary China (co-author, 2002), An Indigenously Developing Village (co-author, 2001), Social Security Systems in Contemporary United Kingdom and Swede (co-author, 2001), A Report on the Social Classes in Contemporary China (co-author, 2001), The Way for Rural China toward A Well-being Society (1999), An Opener of the Territory of New Economics: A Critical Biography of Gary S. Becker (1998), A Retrospect and Prospect of the Modernization of Rural China (1996).

Professor ZHANG Yi:
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