ZHOU Xueguang is the Dean and a Professor of Department of Sociology at Stanford University. His research mainly focuses on organizational sociology, state governance of China, and bureaucracy. He now serves as Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Education at Peking University, Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University, School of Sociology and Population Studies at Renmin University of China, and a Member of Advisory Committee at School of Humanities and Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.