He Qinglian (1956-), a native of Shaoyang, Hunan Province, is a writer and scholar. She was admitted to the Department of History of Hunan Normal University in 1979 and worked at the Hunan College of Finance and Economics after graduation in 1983. In 1985, she was admitted to the Department of Economics of Fudan University and received her master's degree. She taught at Jinan University in Guangzhou and later worked as an editor for the *Shenzhen Legal News*.
In January 1998, she published *The Trap of Modernization: Economic and Social Problems in Contemporary China*, which sold 300,000 copies in two months. She is also the author of *Population: A Hanging Sword Over China*, *The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China* and *China: Crumbling But Not Collapsing*. Her books have been translated and published in several languages. She was listed as one of the 25 most influential People in 1999 by *Sanlian Lifeweek* magazine, which described her as "representing the conscience of China's reformers".
Due to political pressure at home, she left China for the United States in 2011. During her time in the US, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, the City University of New York, and Princeton University.
In January 1998, she published *The Trap of Modernization: Economic and Social Problems in Contemporary China*, which sold 300,000 copies in two months. She is also the author of *Population: A Hanging Sword Over China*, *The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China* and *China: Crumbling But Not Collapsing*. Her books have been translated and published in several languages. She was listed as one of the 25 most influential People in 1999 by *Sanlian Lifeweek* magazine, which described her as "representing the conscience of China's reformers".
Due to political pressure at home, she left China for the United States in 2011. During her time in the US, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, the City University of New York, and Princeton University.
