Huang Ping

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
5 Jianguomen Da Jie,
Beijing 100732, China
Tel:  86 10 8519 5133 [o]
Fax: 86 10 8519 6320[o]
E-mail:  huangping@cass.org.cn

Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Huang Ping is also Chief Executive Editor of the widely-circulated monthly, Dushu. Huang Ping is an Honorary Professor of the Sichuan University, the Eastern China Normal University and the Shanghai University. He is on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology and Comparative Sociology and is an Academic Board Member of the International Organization for Migration. He was a Visiting Professor at the John Hopkins University and was an Asian Leadership Fellow in the year 2001.

In the past ten years, Huang Ping has conducted research on the problems of development in China, poverty, migration, the culture of consumerism and alternative modernities in the age of globalisation. He continues to actively participate in organising and engaging in academic and intellectual debates in China and globally. Among his more recent publications are Consumerism in Urban and Rural China, 2000 and Village Studies on Poverty: A Comparative Analysis, 2001, both of which are written in Chinese.

Huang Ping is one of the main organizers of the 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology in Beijing.

Huang Ping was a member of the ARENA Executive Board 2000 – 2003 and was re-elected for the Executive Board 2003 – 2006.