James Farrer is associate professor of sociology at Sophia University in Tokyo. He is the author of Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai (University of Chicago Press). He is a sociologist and expert in Chinese youth culture, Shanghai urban culture, gender, and sexuality in China and Japan. More recently he has done sociological research on expatriates living and working in Shanghai and Tokyo. Farrer also writes for general media, including the Lonely Planet Guides, the Asian Wall Street Journal, YaleGlobal Online, and Global Asia. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in cognitive science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
