Jong-Ho Jeong is a professor of China studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University (SNU). He has served as the dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, and as the Director of the SNU Institute for China Studies. He has also served as the president of the Korean Association for Contemporary Chinese Studies. Jong-Ho was a visiting scholar at Peking University, China and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University. His research has focused on the restructuring state-society relations in contemporary urban China. Other research interests include social change and social stratification, internal and international migration, social capital and native-place networks, private sector Party-building in China, the rise of China's soft power, changing local identity and Chinese nationalism. Jong-Ho holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University.