LI Peilin is the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Vice President of the Chinese Sociological Association, and Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Studies. Li received his Master’s degree from Université de Lyon in 1984 and Ph.D. from Paris-Sorbonne in 1987. He has published extensively in sociology, including Social Stratification in China, Social Conflict and Class Consciousness, and Social Transformation and Chinese Experiences.

• Part One Transformation of Social Structure and its Consequences 1. The Invisible Hand: Social Structure Transformation 2. The "The Other Invisible Hand" Revisited 3. The "Characteristics" of China’s Economic Reforms 4. Oriental modernization and Chinese experience 5. China’s Path to Overcome the Double Middle-income Trap Part Two Transformation of Urban and Rural Societies in Contemporary China 6. Analysis of the Social Costs of the State-owned Enterprises: A survey of 508 enterprises in 10 major cities in China 7. Beyond the Shadows of Adversity: A Study of Human Capital Failure in the Reemployment of Laid-off Workers 8. Managing unemployment in China’s northeast: "Post-industrialization" and market-oriented transformation--A study of nine large state-owned enterprises in northeast China 9. China’s Rural Industrialization Over the Past 100 Years 10. Social Network of Rural Migrants in China