Feng Wang

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Director, Brookings-Tsinghua Center | Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center
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WANG Feng is widely recognized in both China and the U.S. for his research on social inequality and the changing demographic face of a rapidly modernizing China. Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China, one of his latest books, won the 2009 Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Asian and Asian American Section. He has conducted social demographic research in China under MacArthur and Ford Foundation grants.   | View Full Bio

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Resources

Expertise

  • Social inequality in post-socialist societies
  • Global demographic change and consequences
  • Migration and social reintegration in China

Experience

Current Positions

  • Professor, Sociology, University of California, Irvine (on leave)

Past Positions

  • Chair, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
  • Assistant to Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Hawaii
  • Fellow, The East-West Center
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

Education

  • Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Michigan, 1987
  • M.A. (Sociology), University of Michigan, 1984
  • B.A. (Economics), Hebei University, China, 1982

Language Fluency

  • Chinese
  • English

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