Michel Bonnin Editor & Author

Michel Bonnin is Professor at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France. From 1991 to 1998 he was the director of the French Research Centre on Contemporary China and editor-in-chief of China Perspectives, both of which he founded in Hong Kong. His primary areas of research are the social and political issues in the People’s Republic of China. Bonnin has written extensively in French, English, and Chinese on the rustication movement of educated urban youth during the Maoist period.