65438-0992 studied in Kyoto University, Japan, majoring in agricultural philosophy-rural sociology. After receiving his Ph.D. in March 2000, he returned to China, taught in the Department of Sociology of Nanjing Agricultural University, and engaged in postdoctoral research in the College of Economics and Business. In September 2002, he was transferred to the Department of Sociology of Nanjing University. In June 2004, he became a professor at 165438+ 10. From September 2005 to August 2006, I studied in the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Nanjing University. From September, 2006 to June, 2007, he was hired as a chair professor at the International China Research Center (ICCS) of Aichi University. He is the author of the book "China Villages and Peasants in the Transitional Period (1978 ~ 1998)" (Japanese, Japan Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association, 200 1) and many papers. The research direction is rural society, farmers' problems and environmental problems in contemporary China, and the areas of concern are social problems and social ecology.