Li Shi is China's leading specialist on inequality and poverty in China. He has served as the acting director of the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University since 2011. His numerous published works include Inequality and Public Policy in China with Bj rn Gustafsson and Terry Sicular (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China with Hiroshi Sato (2003); and numerous articles in Chinese and Western scholarly journals. He has won many academic prizes, including the Sun Yefang Prize for Economic Science (1994 and 2011) and the