Dr. Qian Forrest Zhang has served on the faculty of School of Social Sciences

    Singapore Management University since 2005. A native of China, he completed his undergraduate training in Fudan University in Shanghai. He obtained his PhD in sociology from Yale University in 2004. Dr. Zhang’s research covers a wide range of issues in contemporary China that include land market development, agricultural modernization, state farm reform, and social inequality in rural China, and aging, family relations, social mobility, higher education, food supply, and self-employment in urban China. His works have been published in top scholarly journals that include The China Quarterly, The China Journal, Journal of Marriage and Family, World Development, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Politics & Society. He has also conducted fieldwork in many parts of China and traveled the breadth and length of the country. His current research focuses on the rise and impact of capitalism in today’s China from the perspective of food and agriculture. He is also expanding this research into comparative studies of China and India and China’s impact on the global food system.