Li Peilin is Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Vice President of the Chinese Sociological Association, and Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Studies. He received his master’s degree from Université de Lyon in 1984 and Ph.D. from Paris-Sorbonne in 1987. He has published extensively on sociology in China, and his major works are Social Stratification in China, Social Conflict and Class Consciousness, Social Transformation and Chinese Experiences, etc.
Qu Jingdong is associate dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, professor of the Department of Sociology, Pekinig University, and serves as Ph.D. supervisor. Qu’s research interests include history of Western social thoughts, history of Chinese sociology and organizational sociology. Qu is the author of Freedom and Education: Reading Two Philosophical Texts on Education of John Locke and Jean-Jarques Rousseau(2019) and others.
Yang Yabin is professor of Institution of Society, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), director of China United Front Theory Research Association, and serves as deputy president of Beijing Sociological Association. Yang’s research interests include religious and society and history of Chinese sociology. Yang is the author of Modern Chinese Sociology(2001) and others.