Bridie Andrews teaches East Asian history at Bentley University in the Boston area. She is the co-editor of two volumes in the history of medicine and colonialism, and is the author of a forthcoming volume on the history of medical modernization in China.

Alan Bairner is professor of sport and social theory at Loughborough University (UK). He is co-author (with John Sugden) of Sport, Sectarianism and Society in a Divided Ireland (Leicester University Press, 1993) and author of Sport, Nationalism and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives (SUNY Press, 2001). He edited Sport and the Irish: Histories, Identities, Issues (University College Dublin Press, 2005) and was joint editor (with John Sugden) of Sport in Divided Societies (Meyer and Meyer, 1999) and (with Jonathan Magee and Alan Tomlinson) of The Bountiful Game? Football Identities and Finances (Meyer and Meyer, 2005).

Adams Bodomo is chair of the department of linguistics and director of the African studies programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has done pioneering work on 21st-Century Africa–China studies, with a particular focus on the African Diaspora in China.

Kerry Brown is senior fellow on the Asia Programme at Chatham House, London. His Ballot Box China will be published by Zed Books in early 2011.

Alfred L. Chan is professor and chair of the political science department, Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Chin-fen Chang is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology in Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a joint professor at the department of sociology in the National Chengchi University. Her research interests focus on the sociology of labour, gender differences of earnings and employment in East Asian societies. Her paper “Who cares for unions? Public attitudes toward union power in Taiwan between 1995 and 2005” (co-authored with Heng-hao Chang) will appear in China Perspectives later this year.

Yixin Chen is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His articles have appeared in Agricultural History, The Journal of the Historical Society, The Chinese Historical Review, Twentieth-Century China, Journal of Contemporary China. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines famine in China during the Great Leap Forward from the village-level perspective.

Evan Dawley is an historian in the Office of the Historian, US Department of State, and a visiting assistant professor at Reed College. He completed his PhD at Harvard University, where he wrote a dissertation titled “Constructing Taiwanese Ethnicity: Identities in a City on the Border of China and Japan.” He is currently researching the role of Japanese women settlers in the colonization of Taiwan, and the deportation of Japanese from Taiwan after 1945.

Dong Guoqiang is professor of history at Nanjing University, where he also teaches in the Johns Hopkins–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. His primary research interest is the history of the Cultural Revolution at Nanjing University and in Jiangsu Province.

Hualing Fu is a professor in the faculty of law of the University of Hong Kong. Fu received his LLB in China and post-graduate degrees in Canada. He has published widely on issues relating to human rights in China with a special focus on criminal justice, media law, and legal professions.

John W. Garver is a professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Doug Guthrie is dean and professor of management and international business at the George Washington School of Business in Washington DC. Previously he was professor of management at the NYU-Stern School of Business. His areas of expertise are in leadership, corporate governance and economic reform in China.

Rachel Harris is senior lecturer in ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, where she teaches courses in ethnomusicology and on the musics of Central Asia and China. Her current research specialism is in Uyghur music. She has published three books and several articles on aspects of the music culture from ritual contexts to globalisation, pop and identity politics. She has collaborated in the production of several CD recordings, and plays dutar with the London Uyghur Ensemble.

Hans Hendrischke is professor of Chinese political economy and director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Sydney. A researcher on political and economic change in China, his current focus and publications are on emerging local entrepreneurship and local governance. His 2007 book China's Economy in the 21st Century: Enterprise and Business Behaviour (co-edited with B. Krug) was published in a paperback edition in 2009.

Austin Jersild is associate professor of history at Old Dominion University, and the author of Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845–1917 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002). His current work addresses Sino-Soviet relations and the character of socialist bloc collaboration and exchange in the 1950s.

Anders C. Johansson is assistant professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he is affiliated with the China Economic Research Center. Johansson has written extensively on financial markets, international economics, and monetary policy as related to China and other countries in East and Southeast Asia. He is currently focusing his research on issues related to politics and finance in China and other countries in the region.

Emilian Kavalski is lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Western Sydney (Australia). His most recent book is India and Central Asia: The Mythmaking and International Relations of a Rising Power (I.B.Tauris, 2010).

Bo Kong is professorial lecturer of the Energy, Resources, and Environment (ERE) Program and director of the Global Energy and Environment Initiative (GEEI) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is the author of China's International Petroleum Policy.

Kaby Wing-Sze Kung is a PhD candidate in the China and Inner Asia Department of School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her PhD thesis is titled “From Feminism to Post-Feminism: A Study of Hong Ying's and Li Bihua's Work.”

Wai-man Lam is assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Understanding the Political Culture of Hong Kong: The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization (2004), and co-editor of Contemporary Hong Kong Politics: Governance in Post-1997 Era (2007). Her current research focuses primarily on identity politics, political culture and political movements in the Greater China region.

James Leibold is a senior lecturer in politics and Asian studies at La Trobe University. He is the author of Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Critical Han Studies (University of California Press, 2011).

Li Ying is a PhD student at the University of Hong Kong. She obtained her bachelor and master's degrees at Sun Yat-sen University. Her major is political science and public administration, and her current research interests are on Chinese politics, Chinese NGOs, development of civil society and social capital.

Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo is associate professor of sociology at the University of California – Davis. She is the author of Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan (University of California Press, 2002) and co-editor of The Handbook of Cultural Sociology (Routledge, forthcoming 2010). She has published various articles on the cultural processes in political and medical institutions.

Will Lowe is assistant professor in research methods at Maastricht University. He specializes in statistical text analysis with applications to problems in comparative politics and international relations. His work has been published in Political Analysis, International Organization, and the Journal of Peace Research.

Mary Mazzilli is a post-doctorate fellow in Chinese at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests are modern and contemporary Chinese drama (with particular expertise on Gao Xingjian) and literature, comparative literature, gender studies and literary theory.

Charles F. McKhann is professor of anthropology and director of Asian studies at Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA). His research interests include religion, social history, ethnicity, kinship, art and tourism among the Naxi and neighbouring ethnic groups in southwest China (Yunnan and Sichuan). A list of his papers and publications can be found at www.whitman.edu/anthropology/mckhann.html.

Gregory W. Noble is professor of politics and administration at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.

Judy Polumbaum is a professor in the school of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa in Iowa City who studies Chinese journalism and mass media. She first visited China in 1975, as a college student, and did her dissertation fieldwork in China during 1987–88.

Tomonori Sasaki holds an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard University. He is currently working for the ministry of defence of Japan. The analyses, conclusions and policy recommendations expressed or implied in his article are solely his own and do not necessarily represent the views of the ministry of defence of Japan or any other government agency in Japan.

Ian Scott is emeritus professor and a fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University. He is also an adjunct professor at the City University of Hong Kong.

Ronald Skeldon is a professorial fellow in the department of geography at the University of Sussex and a senior research fellow at the Department for International Development (DFID) in London.

Graeme Smith is a postdoctoral fellow at the China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney, and a visiting fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Programme at the Australian National University. He is currently working on a monograph examining the political economy of the Chinese agricultural extension system, and working on a research project investigating Chinese resource investments in Papua New Guinea.

Jonathan Sullivan is a PhD candidate in the School of Politics and Methods and Data Institute, University of Nottingham. His research focuses on various aspects of political communication in Chinese and East Asian contexts. His work has been published in The China Quarterly, Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary China and Government and Opposition.

Tien-Chin Tan is an assistant professor of sport sociology and policy at National Taiwan Normal University. He received a PhD in sport policy from Loughborough University in 2008. His main research interests are public policy for sport, particularly in the areas of sport development, elite sport development; youth sport; and school-based sport policy in Taiwan and China. He has published articles in variety of journals, including The International Journal of the History of Sport, International Journal of Sport Policy and Journal of Sport & Social Issues.

Ming-Chang Tsai received his PhD in sociology from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is professor in the department of sociology in National Taipei University, and served as dean of the College of Social Sciences in the University. His research areas include political economy of growth and human development in developing countries. He currently works on the experiences and consequences of individual globalization of East Asian people.

Andrew G. Walder is Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he is also a Senior Fellow in the Freeman-Spogli Institute of International Studies. He is the author of Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement (Harvard University Press, 2009).

Calla Wiemer is visiting associate professor at the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna College, and research associate at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California–Los Angeles. Her research currently focuses on Chinese saving behaviour and macroeconomic imbalances.

Rod Wye is a research analyst at the North Asia and Pacific Research Group of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

Qian Zhu is a PhD candidate in the history department at New York University. Her research focuses on modern Chinese intellectual history, cultural history and the history of feminism and journalism.