Jean-Philippe Béja is emeritus senior research fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research and the Centre for International Studies and Research at Sciences-Po, Paris.
Liqun Cao is professor of sociology and criminology at Ontario Tech University, Canada. His research interests include criminological theory, policing, policy on ascetic deviance, race and ethnicity in criminal justice. He is the author of Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (Wadsworth, 2004) and a co-author of Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy (Routledge, 2014) with Lanying Huang and Ivan Sun. He co-edited Handbook of Chinese Criminology (Routledge, 2014) with Ivan Sun and Bill Hebenton.
Min-Hua Chiang is research fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Her research interests include Asia-Pacific regionalism, trade and investment, and issues related to economic growth and development in East Asia.
Paul Copp teaches Chinese religion and thought at the University of Chicago.
Miriam Driessen is an anthropologist. Her research explores Ethiopian–Chinese encounters from a variety of angles, including migration, labour, language and, more recently, law. She is the author of Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia (Hong Kong University Press, 2019).
Florence Graezer Bideau is a senior scientist at College of Humanities and at the School of Architecture of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Trained as an anthropologist and in China studies, her research interests include the relation between culture and power, heritage issues, and the making of the city from a comparative perspective, mostly between China, Malaysia and Switzerland. She is currently leading the SNSF project, “Uses of cultural heritage at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games of 2022.”
Michael Hebbert is emeritus professor of town planning at the University of Manchester and University College London, and the former editor of the journal Planning Perspectives.
Florence Mok is Nanyang assistant professor in the history department of Nanyang Technological University. She is a historian of colonial Hong Kong and modern China, with an interest in environmental history, the Cold War and state–society relations. Her doctoral research examined governance and political culture in 1970s Hong Kong. Her current project investigates how the colonial government and the Chinese society in colonial Hong Kong mitigated environmental crises (water shortage, flooding, typhoon and seasonal epidemics) from 1945 to 1980.
Anthony J. Spires, a sociologist, is deputy director of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. His research focuses on the development of civil society in China, including philanthropy, governmental regulation and the cultures of non-profit organizations.
Jonathan Sullivan is associate professor and deputy director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham. He tweets @jonlsullivan.
Jiawen Sun is an associate member of the Centre for Studies on Modern and Contemporary China (CECMC) of the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, France. Her research interests focus on the Down to the Countryside Movement in China and the generation of educated youth, sociology of suffering and medical anthropology related to political depression, the history of global communist revolution, the political legacy of the Mao era and its contemporary manifestations.
Min Tang is an assistant teaching professor in media and communication studies and global studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell. Her current work examines information communication technologies (ICTs) as emerging sites of capitalist reproduction, power negotiations, policy debates and geopolitical rivalries, with a focus on China and the broadly defined Global South regions. She is the author of Tencent: The Political Economy of China's Surging Internet Giant (Routledge, 2019). Her work can also be found in Chinese Journal of Communication and International Journal of Communication.
Jessica C. Teets is an associate professor at Middlebury College, and associate editor of the Journal of Chinese Political Science. Her research focuses on governance in authoritarian regimes, especially the role of civic participation. She is the author of Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and editor (with William Hurst) of Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (Routledge, 2014). Dr. Teets is currently working on a new book manuscript (with Gao Xiang) on local governance under Xi Jinping, and an edited volume developing a theory of how to lobby dictators (with Max Grömping).
Karl Yan is an assistant professor in sociology at Zhejiang University. Karl's research sits at the intersection of international and comparative political economy with a particular focus on railway development and the transformation of China.
Ling Zhou is associate research fellow at the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London.
