<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Zai Liang is currently Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany and Changjiang Scholar Visiting Chair Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University. &nbsp;He is the former chair of Asia and Asian American section of the American Sociological Association.&nbsp; Since 2004, he has been serving as Director and Co-Director of Urban China Research Network, based in Albany. &nbsp;His main research interests are migration/immigration, urbanization and urban sociology. He pursues these interests in the contexts of the United States, China and Africa. &nbsp;His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and China Social Science and Philosophy Foundation among others. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>