WEI Nanzhi is PhD candidate of political science of EHESS. She also teaches at the Law School of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Her dissertation is comparative study of pension law in China, France and Britain. She has published several articles in Mondo Cinese (Italy), Chinese Yearbook of International Law, Jurisprudence (China), and Revue Juridique et Economique Europe-Chine (France). She co-edited a book, Investigation and Reflection of Legal Problems in Rural China, which is published in China’s Social Science & Document Press.