Understanding Social Changes in China

Xiaogang Wu is the Yufeng Global Professor of Social Science and Professor of Sociology at NYU Shanghai and New York University, USA, and the Founding Director of the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER) at NYU Shanghai, China. His research and teaching interests include Chinese society, social inequality and stratification, survey and quantitative methods, and urban sociology. He has served as Chief Editor of Chinese Sociological Review since 2011 and is a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS).

Weidong Wang is Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Executive Director of the Social Science Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong, China. From 2012 to 2024, he served as Deputy Director of the National Survey Research Center at Renmin University of China, and a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), and the Principal Investigator (PI) of the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) and the Chinese Religious Life Survey (CRLS).

Jia Miao is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU Shanghai, China. Her research examines how urban neighborhoods shape social cohesion, health inequality, productive aging, and subjective well-being in the Asian context. She is also interested in the social consequences of homeownership in large Chinese cities. Her work has appeared in Social Science & Medicine, Social Forces, and other leading journals.

Angran Li is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU Shanghai, China, and an affiliated member of the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER). His research focuses on social stratification and inequality, the sociology of education, family, higher education, urban sociology, and quantitative methods. His work has been published in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Social Science Research, Chinese Sociological Review, and other peer-reviewed journals.