Seung-Wook Baek is professor of the department of sociology at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea. He got his Ph.D. degree and B.A from Seoul National University. His main research concerns are social changes in contemporary Chinese society, contemporary Critical social theory and Marxist theories. He published many books in Korea including Chinese Workers and Chinese Labour Politics, Lectures on Capitalist History, China on the boundary of Globalization, Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Aporia of Politics and Thinking Marx. He tries to interpret contemporary history from world-systems approaches and translated main books on world-system analysis into Korean including Giovanni Arrighi’s The Long Twenties Century, Immanual Wallerstein’s The End of the World As We Know It and Beverly Silver’s Forces of Labour. He was former visiting research associate at Fernand Braudel center for the study of Economies, Historical System and Civilization of Binghamton University, former visiting senior research fellow at the Center for Global Political Economy of Sussex University and former editor of New Left Review Korean Edition. He is now doing research on the Chinese Labour dispatch system, Global Economic Crisis and the Social in Marx Idea.