Dr. Wang Feng is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing. He is also a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

Prior to his Brookings’ appointment, Wang Feng taught at the University of California, Irvine (from where he is on leave currently), where he served as the chair of the Department of Sociology. Professor Wang is a widely-recognized expert on China’s social and demographic change and on comparative demographic and social history. He is a co-author (with James Lee) of the book One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000 (Harvard University Press, 1999), which won multiple scholarly awards. His recent work on social inequality in China includes Boundaries and Categories, Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China (Stanford University Press, 2008), Creating Wealth and Poverty in Post-Socialist China (co-edited with Deborah Davis, Stanford University Press, 2009), and his work on demographic change in China includes “The Demographic Factor in China’s Transitions” (with Andrew Mason, in Loren Brant and Thomas Rawski, eds., China’s Great Economic Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Wang Feng received his B.A. in economics from Hebei University in China, and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in the United States.