Professor Jonathan Unger holds a PhD in Sociology, and his research interests include social stratification in China; rural Chinese social, political and economic change; urbanisation; workers and factory life; Chinese nationalism; and Cultural Revolution history. He has published fifteen books and more than eighty refereed papers, and he is one of the two co-editors of The China Journal, one of the world’s leading journals on modern China. Before becoming an academic he served in Asia as a foreign correspondent covering China. Since coming to ANU, he has spent seven months investigating poverty alleviation projects in rural China in behalf of AusAid and the Asia Development Bank.