Qiu Zeqi, a postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, conducts research for the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology. He earned his doctorate in sociology from Peking University and his master's degree in history from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Qiu has also received English language training from the Bell Educational Trust in Wuhan. He is interested in such sociological issues surrounding environment and development as the variable utilization of resources by different peoples, the development of new resources, and the impact of changes in resource availability on our ideas.