Li Peilin, Ph.D., is a research fellow and Vice Chairman of the Social Development Affairs Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress. He formerly served as Vice President and Academic Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His primary research interests include development sociology, organizational sociology, and industrial sociology.

• 1. Introduction: Sociology and Chinese Experience Part I The Spread of Western Learning to the East and the Beginning of Chinese Sociology 2. Enlightenment and the Spread of Western Learning to the East: The Beginning of Sociology 3. Social Evolution: Evolution of Heaven Reform and Strengthening Community 4. Modernization: Reform and Institutional Change Part II Chinese Sociology in the First Half of the 20th Century 5. Historical Materialism Sociology 6. Rural Reconstruction and the Social Survey Movement 7. The Chinese School of Sociology 8. The Institutional School of Chinese Sociology 9. Social History Research Part III A Century of Great Transformation in Traditional China 10. The Basic Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Society 11. A Century of Change in China 12. The Chinese Experience of Reform and Development Part IV Social Transformation in Contemporary China 13. Social Structural Change and Harmonious Stability 14. Livelihood Improvement and Social Construction 15. Urbanization and China's New Growth Stage 16. Toward a Quality-of-Life-Oriented Stage 17. Changes in the Class Structure of Contemporary China