Thomas P. Bernstein is professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University.
Philip H. Brown is assistant professor of economics at Colby College. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan and an MIIM from the School for International Training. His current research emphasizes the use of primary source data collected in rural China to understand how China's rapidly changing economic environment affects the behaviour of rural households.
YongshunCai teaches in the division of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His book Collective Resistance in China: How Citizens Seek Success is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
ChrisKing-chiChan is a post-doctoral fellow in the department of applied social sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Warwick. His research interests are industrial conflict, workplace relations and labour policy.
EmilyChuaHuiching is a doctoral candidate in social-cultural anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests are in knowledge production practices, cultural leadership and notions of collectivity in contemporary China.
DeliaDavin is professor emeritus of Chinese studies at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include gender and family in Chinese society, Chinese population policy and rural to urban migration.
Evan N. Dawley received his PhD in modern Chinese history from Harvard University in 2006. His research focuses on Taiwan during the period of Japanese colonial rule and the immediate post-war years, identity, and relations between China and Japan. He is currently a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State.
AlandeBrauw is a research fellow in the poverty, health, and nutrition division at the International Food Policy Research Institute. His research primarily focuses on rural labour, the effects of migration on source communities, and programme evaluation.
YangDu is a professor at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research primarily focuses on the Chinese labour market, migration and poverty issues in China.
RichardLouisEdmonds is visiting professor in the Geographical Studies Program and associate member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. His interests focus around historical geography and environmental studies. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996–2002. Dr Edmonds has written extensively on China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. His most recent contribution is China's Embedded Activism: Opportunities and Constraints of a Social Movement (Routledge, 2007), co-edited with Peter Ho.
HarrietEvans is professor of Chinese cultural studies at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. Her publications include Women and Sexuality in China: Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender since 1949 (Polity Press, 1997); Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (co-edited with Stephanie Donald, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), and The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Her current research projects include an oral history of everyday life in “south Beijing” (Dashilanr), and an ethnographic study of Chinese perspectives on propaganda posters, in collaboration with Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, (Posters of the Cultural Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on an Era of Propaganda), funded by the Australian Research Council.
DouglasFuller is a lecturer in the department of management of King's College, University of London. His main research interests are the political economy of development and comparative technology policy with a regional focus on East Asia.
ShannaGong is a graduate student in the UCLA department of sociology. She has research interests in sociology of gender, sociology of work, and environmental sociology. Her current master's project uses ethnographic methods to analyse state and market influences on the burgeoning US food movement.
StevanHarrell is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. He was a student of G. William Skinner from 1966, and received his PhD under Skinner and Arthur Wolf at Stanford University in 1974. His latest book, with Bamo Ayi and Ma Lunzy, is Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America (University of Washington Press, 2007). He is now working on an ecological history of the People's Republic of China.
America (University of Washington Press, 2007). He is now working on an ecological history of the People's Republic of China.
LarsPeterLaamann is lecturer in the history of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Published work includes Christian Heretics in late imperial China (Routledge, 2006) and Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China (Hurst, 2004; co-authored with Frank Dikötter and Zhou Xun). His research is focused on the history of popular religion in China and on that of the Manchus.
PhilipLiuHsiaopong is an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University.
MaryMazzilli is a PhD candidate at SOAS (Chinese and Comparative literature). She studied at the University of Edinburgh (MSc) and at the University of Westminster (BA), and was a visiting lecturer of English Literature (Women's writing) at Goldsmith College. Her research interests vary from Chinese and Anglo-American modern and contemporary literature, gender studies to transnationalism and globalization.
Bonnie S. McDougall is advisory editor of Renditions, Research Centre for Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Recent books include Love-letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century (Chinese University Press, 2003).
AaronWilliamMoore is a historian of modern East Asia. His research languages include Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. His current manuscript is entitled The Peril of Self-Discipline: Chinese, Japanese, and American Servicemen Record the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1937–1945 and focuses on diary accounts of the war. He is published in Twentieth Century China, The Journal of Asian Studies, and Japan Focus. Other research interests include early 20th-century science fiction and social planning, the history of childhood in the modern era, and notions of Communist citizenship in diaries from the early PRC.
Marc L. Moskowitz is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of South Carolina and the visual anthropology review editor for the American Anthropologist. He is the author of The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality and the Spirit World in Taiwan (Curzon Press, 2001) and co-editor of The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004).
PunNgai has currently joined the department of applied social sciences at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the author of Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (Duke University Press, 2005).
LesterRoss is managing partner of the Beijing Office of the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He has a JD from Harvard Law School and PhD from The University of Michigan, and has been resident in Beijing since 1997. He has a broad practice including mergers and acquisitions, competition, foreign direct investment, financial services, intellectual property and environmental and energy law. He has particular experience advising multinational corporations with respect to the establishment of operations in China and the outsourcing of manufacturing and research functions, and Chinese institutions with respect to their overseas expansion. He has published widely in these fields. He is a member of the Board of Governors and former General Counsel of the American Chamber of Commerce, China.
MichaelSchoenhals is professor of Chinese in the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden, and founder of the international garbology school of Cultural Revolution research. He is currently working on a historical study of the use of confidential human sources and agents in compliance-oriented regulatory surveillance of status offenders by competent governmental authorities in post-liberation China.
Brenda L. Schuster holds an MA in international studies (Russia, East Europe and Central Asia) and a graduate certificate in international health from the University of Washington in Seattle. A former Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan and Uganda, Ms Schuster is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a former Andrew Mellon Fellow. She is currently working in public health in Southeast Asia.
LihongShi is a PhD candidate of socio-cultural anthropology at Tulane University. Her dissertation explores reproductive choice and family change under China's birth-control policy. She has received a master's degree in Women's Studies from San Diego State University.
YangSu is assistant professor of sociology at UC Irvine. He is author of Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution, forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. A social movement scholar, he has also published as a co-author at American Sociological Review, The China Quarterly and Journal for Asian Studies.
JonathanSullivan is a PhD student in the school of politics and international relations at the University of Nottingham. His work has been published in The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Government and Opposition and the Journal of European Public Policy.
Jessica C. Teets was awarded her PhD in political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and recently joined the faculty of Middlebury College as an assistant professor. Her main research interests are governance in non-democracies, the role of civil society in China and other non-democracies, and the ability of social networks to transmit information in non-transparent environments.
Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr. is professor of politics at Brandeis University and a research fellow at the Dartmouth College John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
SebastianVeg is a researcher at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Hong Kong), with a focus on literature and politics in 20th-century China. He has recently published Fictions du pouvoir chinois. Littérature, modernisme et démocratie au début du XXe siècle (Éditions de l'EHESS, 2009)
ArthurWaldron is the Lauder professor of international relations in the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania. His specialties are the history of China and Eurasia, and the history of war and violence.
BrianWalker is associate professor in the department of political science at UCLA. His recent research focuses on the American Transcendentalist engagement with Confucianism.
WeiBingbing is a PhD student from the department of history, National University of Singapore. His research interests include Chinese urban history, popular culture of modern China, and political history of the Republic of China.
RodWye is a research analyst at the North Asia and Pacific Research Group of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
LeiXie received her PhD in 2007 from Wageningen University, Netherlands. Her book, Environmental Activism in China, will be published in 2009 by Routledge. She is now working at Chinadialogue in London.
BinYang, now assistant professor at the history department, National University of Singapore, is interested in modern China, Chinese frontier and ethnic studies, and world history. His dissertation-based book, Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BC–Twentieth Century CE) was published by Columbia University Press in March 2009.
YapingZhou is assistant professor at Lanzhou University, China.
