Wang Feng

WANG Feng currently holds the position of professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a scholar with expertise in global demographic change, social inequality, public policy, and comparative population and social history. Wang Feng is the author of several award-winning books in these areas and has contributed to many other publications. His work and views have been prominently featured in major global media outlets. Additionally, he has served as an expert for organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum, among many others. Wang Feng’s extensively professional background includes terms as Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, Senior Fellow in Foreign Relations and in Global Development at the Brookings Institution, and Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing. His latest book, China’s Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath, examines the underlying forces driving China’s four-decade-long historical transformation. Currently, he is working on a new book project, entitled “The Long Exit: How China Ended its One Child Policy.”