ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an auto-biographical review of Jing Tiankui's journey into the intellectual and social-political contexts. In 1962, Jing passed the admission exam and was enrolled at the Department of Philosophy in Peking University. In 1966, Jing experienced the "unprecedented" social movement the Cultural Revolution at the university where the event began. Jing passed the admission exam of the graduate school of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and formally began his career in academic research. After a number of investigations on the reform in Anhui Province in 1992, he founded the Center for Social Development at CASS and became the head of the center. He organized a research team in 1994, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations entrusted people to investigate the influx of peasant workers in urban areas. In 2001, he served as the vice-chairman of the IIS. And recently in 2006, he was elected a member in CASS.
