Throughout this volume, Chinese names are always ordered according to standard practice in China, with surnames preceding given names. To clarify this ordering, surnames are in small capital letters in the following list of contributors.

CAI Fang (蔡 昉), Ph.D. is a director and professor at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research focuses on China’s economic and agricultural development, labor migration, and population economics.

CHAN Kam Wing is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. His resea…