Martin King Whyte is John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology at Harvard University. He specializes in the sociology of the family, the sociology of development, the sociological study of contemporary China, and the comparative analysis of post-socialist transitions in China and Eastern Europe. His most recent books are Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press) and One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (Harvard University Press), both published in 2010.