Xiaoyi Wang is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has been engaged in rural development, anti-poverty, and environmental issues for 30 years. He has published many research works, for example, Grassland Community under Environmental Pressure, and he has translated and introduced a large number of foreign related studies, such as James Scott's Art of Escaping Rule, National Perspective, and Unbalanced, Common and Land. Apart from traditional academic research, he participated in rural development practices and carried out community-participatory environmental protection and sustainable development activities in Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and other places.