Ariel C. Armony is director of the University of Miami's Center for Latin American Studies, professor of international studies, and Weeks professor in Latin American studies. He has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kellogg Foundation, and Fulbright Program for teaching and research in China. He has written extensively on such topics as civil society, democratization, human rights, and more recently, the role of China in Latin America.
Paul J. Bailey is professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Durham, and is co-director of its Chinese Studies programme. His publications include Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Gender and Education in China (Routledge Curzon, 2007), and China in the Twentieth Century (Blackwell, 2001). He is currently completing a book entitled The Sino-French Connection: Chinese Workers in World War One France and the Chinese Francophile “Lobby.”
Richard Baum is distinguished professor emeritus of political science at UCLA. His latest book is China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom (University of Washington Press, 2010). He is the founder and list manager of the online discussion forum, Chinapol, and the author and presenter of the 48-part instructional video course, The Fall and Rise of China (The Teaching Company, 2010).
Marc Blecher is professor of politics and East Asian studies at Oberlin College, USA. He is the author of China against the Tides (Continuum, 2003) and co-author of Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County (Stanford University Press, 1996) and Micropolitics in Contemporary China: A Technical Unit During and After the Cultural Revolution (ME Sharpe, 1980).
Chris Bramall is professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and editor of The China Quarterly. His latest book is Chinese Economic Development (Routledge, 2009).
Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard is professor and director of the Asia Research Center, Copenhagen Business School. His current research interests include cadre management and civil service reform in China, Party–business relations, and the structure and impact of Chinese business groups in China as well as on the global-level playing field. His most recent monograph is Hainan: State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province (Routledge, 2009).
James Carter is professor of history at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Yinghong Cheng is associate professor of history at Delaware State University.
Susanne Y. P. Choi is associate professor of sociology, director of the Gender Research Centre, and associate director of the Centre for Chinese Family Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender, HIV/AIDS and health, domestic violence against women, domestic division of labour, gender and migration in Chinese societies and transitional justice.
Enrique Dussel Peters is professor at the Graduate School of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and director of the Center for Chinese–Mexican Studies (CECHIMEX) at UNAM.
Jacob Eyferth is associate professor at the department of East Asian languages and civilizations of the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the social history of rural China in the 20th century. His book Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Papermakers (Harvard University Asia Center) in Sichuan won the Levenson Prize for the best book on post-1900 China published in 2009.
Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa is a professor in economic history and Brazilian economy at the Institute of Brazilian Studies, University of São Paulo. He is the author of a book on the Brazilian labour market and has written extensively on relations between Brazil and China.
Peter Ferdinand is reader in politics and international studies at the University of Warwick.
Ruben Gonzales-Vicente is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the political economy of Chinese mining investment in Latin America. His theoretical work is also concerned with the internationalization of the Chinese state and Chinese businesses. His previous research has been published in The Pacific Review and Political Geography.
Adrian H. Hearn is Australian Research Council (ARC) Future fellow at the University of Sydney and co-chair of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Section for Asia and the Americas. Recent publications include Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development (Duke University Press, 2008) and (as editor) China Engages Latin America: Tracing the Trajectory (Lynne Rienner, 2011).
Rhys Jenkins is a professor in the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. He has extensive experience of research on Latin American economic development and has published a number of books and articles on various aspects of globalization including the impacts of China on Latin America.
Ellen R. Judd is a distinguished professor at the University of Manitoba. She is an anthropologist whose works include (as author) Gender and Power in Rural North China and The Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market and (as co-editor) Feminists Doing Development: A Practical Critique and Mobility and Migration in China and the Asia Pacific Region. Her current research is an ethnographic study of west China rural migrants and their accessing of health care for their translocal families.
Aleksandra Kubat is a PhD candidate in Chinese studies research at King's China Institute, King's College London. Her chief interests include contemporary Chinese political thought, sociology of China and China-specific research problems. She holds an MA in Sociology from University of Warsaw and MSc in China and Globalisation from King's College London. She also pursued Mandarin studies at Taiwan National Normal University and cultural studies programmes at Tel-Aviv University and several Eastern European universities.
Gregory B. Lee recently established the Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies, and currently heads up the French federative research structure MC3M (Migration et Citoyenneté: Mutations, Métissage, Multilinguisme). The American edition of his new book China's Lost Decade: Cultural Politics and Poetics 1978–1990 in Place of History, is published by Zephyr Press.
Stanley Lubman has specialized on China as a scholar and as a practising lawyer for over 45 years. He is distinguished resident lecturer (ret.) at the Berkeley Law School of the University of California. He is the author of Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China after Mao (Stanford University Press, 1999) and co-editor of Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice (Stanford University Press, 2005, with Neil J. Diamant and Kevin O'Brien).
Tim Oakes teaches cultural geography at University of Colorado at Boulder. He is visiting professor at Guizhou Nationalities University and at Waginengen University. His books include Tourism and Modernity in China (Routledge, 1998), Translocal China (Routledge, 2006), and Faiths on Display: Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010).
Pun Ngai is an associate professor in the department of applied social sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her current research interests include labour, gender, socialist theory, and history.
Gonzalo Sebastián Paz is a former lecturer in international affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
Rosemary Roberts is a senior lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is author of Maoist Model Theatre: The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) (Brill, 2010) and has published widely in the areas of modern Chinese literature and gender studies. She is co-editor of four volumes of critical works on literary, cultural and gender studies in China and East Asia and is currently working on a literary and aesthetic history of the Maoist model theatre and a cultural analysis of socialist icons of the Maoist era.
David Shambaugh is professor of political science and international affairs, and director of the China Policy Program at The George Washington University. He is also the former Editor of The China Quarterly (1991–96).
Simon Shen is associate professor and external relations coordinator in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education, adjunct associate professor and chief co-ordinator of the Master of Global Political Economy Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and former visiting fellows of Brookings Institution and University of Warwick. His current research includes Chinese nationalism and Chinese foreign policy, external relations of Hong Kong, antiterrorism and regional security in Asia, among others. He is author of Redefining Nationalism in Modern China (Palgrave, 2007).
Julia C. Strauss is senior lecturer in Chinese politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and was editor of The China Quarterly from 2002 until 2011. Her main area of interest is in state building, and the ways in which the rhetorical and performative dimensions of the state interact with different institutions and interests. She has written widely on 20th- and 21st-century China, with particular interests in land reform, grain supply and forestry administration. She has co-edited China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalization and Development (Cambridge University Press, 2009), with Martha Saavedra.
Jonathan Sullivan is a lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, and senior fellow at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham. He researches Taiwanese and Chinese politics and political communications. He is currently writing books on Taiwanese election campaigns and political uses of new and social media in China.
Joseph D. Tucker is an assistant professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Medicine. His research focuses on the social context of sexual health in China and he lives in Guangzhou, China.
Ezra Vogel is Henry Ford Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus at Harvard. He was professor at Harvard from 1967–2000. He succeeded John Fairbank as the second director of the East Asian Research Center. He was the founding director of Harvard's Asia Center. He is the author of, among other works, Canton Under Communism, One Step Ahead in China, and, most recently Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.
Rod Wye is a freelance commentator on Asia and a former analyst in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
Emily T. Yeh is an associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specializing in nature–society relations, environmental governance, and development in Tibetan areas of China. Her work has appeared in journals including The China Quarterly, Society and Space, Environmental History, and Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
David Zweig is chair professor, division of social science, and director of the Center on China's Transnational Relations at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His most recent books include Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages (Cornell University Press, 2002), and Globalization and China's Reforms, edited with Chen Zhimin (Routledge, 2007).
