Inside the Mind of
Qian Forrest Zhang
Dr Qian Forrest Zhang joined Singapore Management University in 2005. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Sociology and the Associate Dean for Research at the School of Social Sciences. He completed his undergraduate training at Fudan University in Shanghai and obtained a PhD in sociology from Yale University in 2004. His research focuses on China’s agrarian political economy and rural development but extends to a range of other issues in contemporary China, including self-employment, stratification and inequality, social mobility, and family relations. His recent works have investigated agricultural cooperatives, industrial pig farming, the agrarian capitalist class, and land politics. He is the recipient of the 2015 Bernstein & Byres Prize in agrarian change.
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“The easiest way to develop an Alternative Food Network is to find an institution that provides food for a large group of people, like schools, hospitals, and even prisons, to obtain their food directly from a rural community. So they don't need to go to a wholesaler to buy their food, they just go directly to a producer or a local rural community.”