He Bozhuan , a native of Guangzhou, graduated from the Mathematics Department of Guangdong Normal University in 1962, and participated in the development of China's first generation of computers as a student. He taught in a middle school after the end of the Cultural Revolution, and was later transferred to teach at the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University. In 1989, he published China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development, a book that describes the crises that China is likely to face in the future. The book was recommended by Sanlian Bookstore in 2005 as one of the books that had the greatest impact on China in the last 20 years.
