RobertAsh is professor of economics with special reference to China and Taiwan in the department of economics and the Centre for Financial and Management Studies, and director of the Taiwan studies programme, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Geremie R. Barmé is an Australian Research Council Federation fellow based at The Australian National University. He is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker and web archivist who works on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the present. He edits China Heritage Quarterly, and his recent books are The Forbidden City (Profile Books and Harvard University Press, 2008), Sang Ye's oral history of contemporary China, China Candid: the people on the People's Republic (University of California Press, 2006) and The Great Wall of China, edited with Claire Roberts (Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2006). His 2003 film, Morning Sun, which he co-produced, co-wrote and co-directed with Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon of the Long Bow Group in Boston, won the American Historical Association's 2004 John E. O'Connor Award.

ChrisBerry is the professor of film and television studies in the department of media and communication at Goldsmiths College, London. His research is focused on Chinese cinemas and other Chinese screen-based media, with a particular interest in gender, sexuality and the postcolonial politics of time and space. His latest publications include (with Mary Farquhar) Cinema and the National: China on Screen (Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006) and Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (Routledge, 2004).

Christopher P. Bettinger is associate professor of sociology at San Francisco State University. His work focuses on race and ethnic conflict and civil society in the Pacific Rim. He teaches courses in these subjects as well as sociological methods and statistics.

SarahBiddulph is associate professor and reader in the Law School, The University of Melbourne. She teaches and researches in the area of Chinese law. Her work has focussed on contemporary Chinese administrative law, criminal procedure, labour, comparative law and the law regulating social and economic rights. Her recent publications include Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor of Examining Practice Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia (Brill, 2008).

TerryBodenhorn is the associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and associate professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Anne-Marie Brady is a senior lecturer in the School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Canterbury. She is the author of Friend of China: The Myth of Rewi Alley (Routledge, 2002), Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008) and various articles on Chinese domestic and foreign policy.

SusanBrownell is professor and chair of the department of anthropology and languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is the author of Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). In 2007–2008 she held a Fulbright Award for research on the Beijing Olympics and was affiliated with the Beijing Sport University.

Howard H. Chiang is the founding editor of Critical Studies in History and currently a PhD candidate in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. He is the organizer of the conference “Trans Ventures: Trans/Formations of Gender in Sinophone Culture,” to be held in May 2009 at Princeton University.

JaeHo Chung is professor of international relations and director of the Institute for China Studies at Seoul National University, Korea. He is the editor of Charting China's Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and Anatomy of Local China (Routledge, forthcoming) and author of Between Ally and Partner: Korea-China Relations and the United States (Columbia University Press, 2007).

JaneDuckett is professor of Chinese and comparative politics at the University of Glasgow. She is currently writing a book on health politics in China.

ArianneGaetano is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on gender, migration and marriage in contemporary China.

XiajuanGuo is professor of politics, College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. She researches on feminist political theory, women's political participations in contemporary China, and ethics in public administration.

DougGuthrie is professor of management at the NYU-Stern School of Business and professor of sociology in NYU's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also faculty director of executive education at the Stern School. He is author of Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press, 2001) and China and Globalization: The Economic, Political, and Social Transformation of Chinese Society (Routledge, 2006).

GrahamHutchings is managing editor of the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief. He was China Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph from 1987 to 1998, and is the author of Modern China: A Companion to a Rising Power (Penguin, 2000).

Jang-Hwan Joo is assistant professor of Chinese studies at Hanshin University, Korea. His current research focuses on the formation of “regions” in China and a typology of Chinese new political elites.

HongyiLai is lecturer at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. His books include Reform and the Non-State Economy in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), China into the Hu–Wen Era (co-edited), and Asian Energy Security: The Maritime Dimension (edited, forthcoming). He researches China's economic transition, regional development, diplomacy and governance.

KevinLatham is a senior lecturer in the department of anthropology and sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research interests include Chinese media, journalism and popular culture raising theoretical issues surrounding communication, knowledge production, performance, consumption, governmentality and mediated citizenship.

Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo is associate professor of sociology at University of California-Davis. She is the author of Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan (University of California Press, 2002). She is currently working on two research projects: one project addresses the cultural processes in emergent civil societies in East Asia, and the second project studies doctor–patient interactions across cultural and racial divides.

VivienneLo specializes in the history of Chinese medical practice. She translates and analyses excavated and recovered manuscripts from the early imperial and medieval period concerned with the development of acupuncture, moxibustion and therapeutic exercise. She has also published widely on food and medicine in China and Chinese medical imagery. Current projects include the analysis of an early 14th-century Persian translation of Chinese medical writings.

DanielLynch is associate professor of international relations at the University of Southern California and is a member of the USC US–China Institute's Executive Committee. He is the author of Rising China and Asian Democratization: State Socialization to Global Culture in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan (Stanford University Press, 2006), and After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and Thought Work in Reformed China (Stanford University Press, 1999).

Stephen L. Morgan is associate professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. His research spans Chinese economics and business from c.1800 to the present, including a project on the transfer of Western managerial knowledge before 1949. Recent articles have appeared in the Australian Economic History Review, Business History, China Quarterly, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Management History and World Economy.

KarinMyhre is an assistant professor of Chinese in the department of comparative literature at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include ghosts and the strange, jokes, humour and memory in pre-modern China.

Frank N. Pieke is university lecturer in the modern politics and society of China and head of the China Centre and the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford. His most recent monograph is Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (Stanford University Press, 2004, with Pál Nyíri, Mette Thunø and Antonella Ceccagno). He just completed a book on party schools and cadre training that will be published by Cambridge University Press.

HelenRees is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. A specialist in music of southwest China, she is the author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China (Oxford University Press, 2000) and editor of Lives in Chinese Music (University of Illinois Press, 2008).

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.

DavidShambaugh is professor of political science and international affairs and director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He has also been a non-resident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He previously served as Editor of The China Quarterly, was reader in Chinese politics in the University of London (SOAS). He has published widely on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs, as well as the international relations of Asia and Europe. His most recent book is China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation (University of California Press, 2008).

Chung-chianTeng is professor in the department of diplomacy, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

GerdaWielander is an academic based in London. She obtained an MA and PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Vienna, Austria. Her PhD dissertation investigated the Malaysian Chinese evaluation of China's democracy movement (1976–1989) as expressed in the region's vibrant Chinese press. Gerda has taught at a number of British universities including University of Westminster, SOAS and Cambridge. She is currently programme director for undergraduate languages at University of Westminster. Her current research investigates the political activities of Chinese Christians. She is also involved in the first stages of a research project on media reporting on Christianity in China.

ChaoXi is assistant professor at the faculty of law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His most recent publications are Doing Business in China (third edition, co-authored with Tim Ambler and Morgen Witzel, Routledge, 2008), and Corporate Governance and Legal Reform in China (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 2008).

LijunYang lectures Chinese politics and society in the department of Chinese studies at National University of Singapore. She is also a research fellow in East Asian Institute at the same university. She researches on China's Cultural Revolution, social movements and political participation in modern China.

YushengYao is an associate professor in the history department of Rollins College, Florida. His research interest is China's modernization and rural reconstruction in the 20th century.

YongnianZheng is professor of Chinese politics, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. He researches on China's domestic political economy and its external impacts. His latest book is Technological Empowerment: the Internet, State and Society in China (Stanford University Press, 2007).