Sun Liping (May 7, 1955-) is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University. A native of Suizhong, Liaoning Province, Sun was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University in 1978, where he majored in journalism, and then to Nankai University, where he studied sociology. From 1983 to 1999, Sun taught at Peking University, where he served as teaching assistant, lecturer, and associate professor. He transferred to Tsinghua University as a professor and doctoral supervisor in 2000. Sun is also a guest researcher of the China Society for Economic Reform.
Sun is concerned with China's political and economic reforms, and has published several books analyzing China's economy and society from a sociological point of view including *Exploration and Reflections on Development*, *Fracture: Chinese Society since the 1990s*, and *Social Reconstruction—Reconstruction of Order in a Transforming Society*.
Sun is concerned with China's political and economic reforms, and has published several books analyzing China's economy and society from a sociological point of view including *Exploration and Reflections on Development*, *Fracture: Chinese Society since the 1990s*, and *Social Reconstruction—Reconstruction of Order in a Transforming Society*.
