Chris Alden teaches international relations at the London School Economics and Political Science (LSE), and is a research associate of department of political sciences at the University of Pretoria. He has contributed to the South African Institute of International Affairs and published extensively on China–Africa matters.

John Anderson is currently an assistant professor of management and John Deere endowed faculty fellow in University of Northern Iowa's College of Business Administration. He has previously worked at China Agricultural University's International College in Beijing and Drake University's College of Business and Public Administration.

Philip Andrews-Speed is a principal fellow at the Energy Studies Institute of the National University of Singapore. Until 2010 he was professor of energy policy at the University of Dundee and director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. After that, whilst a fellow at the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund of the US, he co-authored a report entitled The Global Resource Nexus. The Struggles for Land, Food, Water and Minerals. Recent books include The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).

T. H. Barrett is professor of East Asian history at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of a number of studies of the history of Chinese religion and of Western writing on China, most recently The Woman Who Discovered Printing (Yale University Press, 2008).

Chris Berry is professor of film studies at King's College London. His academic research is grounded in work on Chinese cinema and other Chinese screen-based media, as well as neighbouring countries. Primary publications include: (with Mary Farquhar) Cinema and the National: China on Screen (Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006); Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (Routledge, 2004); Public Space, Media Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); and (edited with Lu Xinyu and Lisa Rofel), The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record (Hong Kong University Press, 2010).

Sarah Biddulph is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2014–2018) and Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School. Her research focuses on contemporary Chinese administrative law, criminal procedure, labour, comparative law and the law regulating social and economic rights.

Martin K. Dimitrov is associate professor of political science and director of the Asian Studies Program at Tulane University. He is the author of Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and the editor of Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is currently completing a book-length manuscript entitled Dictatorship and Information: Autocratic Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China.

Miriam Driessen is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

Haiyan Duan is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Political Science and Public Management, East China University of Political Science and Law. Her current research interests include the political economy of China, local governance and political conflict.

Harriet Evans is professor of Chinese cultural studies and director of the Contemporary China Centre, faculty of social science and humanities, University of Westminster. Her research interests focus on women, gender and sexuality, and memory, cultural heritage and neighbourhood life.

Andrew M. Fischer is associate professor of development studies at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has been researching regional economic development strategies in the minority areas of western China since 2001, including almost two years of accumulated fieldwork. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Nick Frisch is a doctoral student at Yale University's department of East Asian languages and literatures. His interests include intellectual and media history in late imperial through contemporary China.

Thomas B. Gold is professor of sociology at University of California, Berkeley. He studies societies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Timothy Hildebrandt is assistant professor of social policy and development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where his current research focuses on LGBT activism, NGO maturation, and organizational change. His recent book, Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China (Cambridge University Press, 2013), examines the emergence of Chinese NGOs and their relationship with the government.

Michael Rand Hoare has been active in Taiwan studies for nearly 30 years since early language study at the then PCL in London and the Guoyu Zhongxin in Taipei, the latter after opting for early retirement from science lecturing in London. Since then he has specialized in the history of UK–Taiwan relations with extensive research into the national archives, and has given many seminars and conference appearances. He is writing a UK–Taiwan History for Routledge in the Taiwan Studies series. In other interests, he has written on lexicography and social history of science, as well as publishing the advanced learning text Intimate Chinese (Taipei, 2012). He is an honorary research fellow of SOAS, an emeritus reader at London University and non-resident member of King's College Cambridge.

Carolyn L. Hsu is associate professor of sociology at Colgate University, New York. She is the author of Creating Market Socialism (Duke University Press, 2007) and of a number of articles on Chinese NGOs, including “Beyond Civil Society” in the Journal of Civil Society, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2010).

Yuzhou Jiang graduated from Colgate University in 2012 and now works in finance.

Svetlana Kharchenkova is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD project is devoted to the workings and development of the Chinese contemporary art market. Kharchenkova's research is grounded in cultural and economic sociology, and is part of the large-scale project “The Globalization of High Culture: How Markets for Contemporary Art Develop in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC)” funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Chien-Wen Kou is a professor in the department of political science and in the graduate institute of East Asian studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (ROC). His research focuses on Chinese politics, elite politics, and authoritarianism.

Daniel Large is assistant professor at the School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, and director of the Rift Valley Institute's digital Sudan Open Archive.

Hongbin Li is C.V. Starr professor of economics at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Bing Ling is professor of Chinese law at the University of Sydney. He studied at Peking University and the University of Michigan. He was previously a founding professor at the law faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Anna Lora-Wainwright is associate professor in the human geography of China at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village (Hawai‘i University Press, 2013).

Prashant Loyalka is a centre research fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a faculty member of the Rural Education Action Program at Stanford University.

Colin Mackerras is professor emeritus at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He has published widely on subjects relating to China. Among his main topics are ethnicity and the ethnic minorities in contemporary China, on which he has authored four books, in particular China's Minorities: Integration and Modernization in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1994), and edited others.

Micah Muscolino is associate professor of Chinese history and Jessica Rawson fellowship in modern Asian history at Merton College, the University of Oxford. His most recent book is The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Liselotte Odgaard is an associate professor at the Institute for Strategy at the Royal Danish Defence College. She has published numerous articles, edited volumes and three single-authored books on security in the Asia-Pacific, China's role in global security management and strategic theory and practice. She has been a visiting fellow at several institutions, including the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her latest monograph is China and Coexistence: Beijing's National Security Strategy for the 21st Century (Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).

Ralph Parfect is acting director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London, and a teaching fellow at the Institute.

Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth senior fellow and the co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Jing Song is research assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Aminda Smith is associate professor of modern Chinese history at Michigan State University.

Dylan Sutherland has a broad range of research interests related to contemporary East Asian business, with a specific focus on Chinese business. His current research looks at explaining the emergence of Chinese business groups and MNEs in light of current economic and business theory. He has lived and worked in China for several years, where he has undertaken extensive fieldwork. He has previously worked as a lecturer in development studies at Cambridge University and Chinese studies at Nottingham University. He now works at Durham University Business School, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate modules on East Asian business.

J. Barton Starr is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. His primary areas of research are the history of early Protestant missions in China, and the Loyalists of the American Revolution. He has published in both areas, and for many years has been working on a long-term project The Papers of Robert Morrison. He lived and taught in Hong Kong for 25 years where, among other things, he was responsible for the establishment and initial development of the Archive on the History of Christianity in China at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Ian Taylor is professor in international relations and African politics at the University of St Andrews and chair professor in the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China, as well as being professor extraordinary in political science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Stig Thøgersen is professor of China studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. He works on social and cultural change in rural China and on Chinese students abroad. His latest book on rural issues is Organizing Rural China – Rural China Organizing (edited with A. Bislev; Lexington Books 2012).

Patricia M. Thornton is a lecturer in Chinese politics in the department of politics and international relations, University of Oxford, and a tutorial fellow at Merton College. She is author of Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence and State-making in Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2007).

Wen-Hsuan Tsai is assistant research fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His areas of specialization are political reform in the CCP and authoritarian regimes.

Els Van Dongen is assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include the history, historiography, and intellectual history of modern China; the history of the Chinese overseas; comparative diaspora engagement strategies; and nationalism and transnationalism in Asia.

Ming Wan is professor of government and politics and director of the political science division at the School of Policy, Government and International Affairs of George Mason University, located in Fairfax, Virginia. He recently published The China Model and Global Political Economy: Comparison, Impact, and Interaction (Routledge, 2014). He is a co-editor for a new series “The Political Economy of East Asia” from Palgrave Macmillan.

Binzhen Wu is associate professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Jieyu Xie is a research fellow at Shanghai Finance Institute and a PhD student at School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.

Yihan Xiong is associate professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. His current research focuses upon political socialization of migrant children, political participation of China's middle class and ethnic conflicts in oil-rich countries.

Emily T. Yeh is associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (2013).

Ming Zeng is a professor of public administration at Nanchang University. His research interests focus on public finance and local governance.

Jing Vivian Zhan is an associate professor in the department of government and public administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She specializes in comparative politics and methodology, with a focus on the political economy, intergovernmental relations and local governance of contemporary China.

Taomo Zhou is a PhD candidate at the department of history, Cornell University. Her dissertation project focuses on the diplomatic relations and transnational social interactions between China and Indonesia in the Cold War era.