SUN Xiulin is the vice director and professor of the Department of Sociology at Shanghai University. He received his bachelor’s degree (2003) and master’s degree (2000) from the Department of Sociology at Peking University. In 2007 he graduated from the Department of Sociology and Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a doctorate. He was a visiting scholar at University of Michigan in 2003. He is the vice editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Sociology and the vice director of Shanghai Sociology and Science Research Center at Shanghai University. He was granted Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program (2011), Excellent Yong Teacher of Shanghai University (2012) and Shanghai Shuguang Talent (2014).