He Weifang, one of China's most influential public intellectuals, is a professor of law at Peking University in Beijing. In 2011 he was named by "Foreign Policy" as one of its top 100 global thinkers.Cheng Li, a senior fellow and director of research in the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, is editor of "China's Emerging Middle Class "(Brookings, 2010).John L. Thornton is chairman of the board of trustees at the Brookings Institution and professor and director of global leadership at Tsinghua University.