Jing Tiankui, Ph.D. is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Deputy Director of the CASS Academic Division of Social, Political and Legal Studies, research fellow and doctoral advisor at the CASS Institute of Sociology. His research specialties include social epistemology, social science methodology, and philosophy of sociology. His books include Welfare and Sociology, The Foundation of Harmonious Society, An Introduction to Classics in Sociology and others.