Robert Ash is a professorial fellow of the SOAS China Institute, and professor of economics with reference to China and Taiwan in the School of Finance and Management, SOAS University of London.
Chris Berry teaches in film studies at King's College London. His most recent book (co-edited with Luke Robinson) is Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016).
Xiaohe Cheng is associate professor at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. He is an expert in the field of Korean peninsula studies.
Paul Irwin Crookes is an associate professor and the director of graduate studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, where he teaches on China's international relations and foreign policy. Paul has research interests in Europe–China economic relations, China's innovation capabilities and security issues of cross-Taiwan Strait relations. His most recent book is The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations: An Uneasy Partnership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), co-authored with John Farnell.
Miriam Driessen is an anthropologist based at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia (Hong Kong University Press, 2019).
Mark Giordano is a professor of geography and director of the program in science, technology and international affairs at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Jinba Tenzin is an assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is interested in a comparative study of different types of borders and margins and is now completing a new book on the crisis of anthropology and its future prospect and promise.
Hanchao Lu is professor of history at Georgia Tech, specialized in the history of modern China. His publications include three award-winning books: Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century (University of California Press, 1999/2004), Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars (Stanford University Press, 2005), and The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond (University of Washington Press, 2010). He is the editor of The Chinese Historical Review and director of the China Research Center in Atlanta.
Ellen Oxfeld is professor of anthropology at Middlebury College. She is the author of Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community (Cornell University Press, 1993) and the co-editor of Coming Home? Immigrants, Refugees, and Those Who Stayed Behind (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
Guy Ramsay is a senior lecturer in Chinese language and studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests include discourse analysis and narrative analysis in mental illness and related disorders in China and the Chinese diaspora. His recent books include Chinese Stories of Drug Addiction: Beyond the Opium Dens (Routledge, 2016) and Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China (Routledge, 2013). He has recently completed a book manuscript, Reporting Mental Illness: Print Media in Greater China.
Thomas G. Rawski is emeritus professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is co-editor (with Loren Brandt) of Policy, Regulation and Innovation in China's Electricity and Telecom Industries (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Xuefei Ren is associate professor of sociology and global urban studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Urban China (Polity Press, 2013). She is also the lead editor of Globalizing Cities Readers (Routledge, 2018), and has been conducting comparative research on China, India, Brazil and the United States.
Eric Setzekorn specializes in the military history of China and Taiwan. His recent book, The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps: The Republic of China Military, 1942–1955, was published in 2018 with the University of Oklahoma Press. He is a historian with the US Army Center of Military History and is an adjunct professor at George Mason University.
Xin Sun is lecturer in Chinese and East Asian business at King's College London. His research focuses on land politics, governance and government–business relations in China.
Tommy Tse is an assistant professor in media and culture in the department of sociology, The University of Hong Kong. He specialises in East Asia's media and cultural industries, creative labour, consumer culture and sociology of fashion.
Sebastian Veg is a professor of intellectual history of modern and contemporary China at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His most recent book is Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals (Columbia University Press, 2019).
Meiqin Wang is a professor at California State University Northridge. She researches contemporary art from China in the context of commercialization and urbanization of the Chinese world and has written on topics such as artist villages and cultural industries, art and urbanization, and socially engaged art. Her recent publication includes a research monograph Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art (Routledge, 2016), a co-edited volume Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China (Amsterdam University Press, 2018), and another monograph Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China: Voices from Below (Routledge, 2019).
Ray Yep is professor of politics and associate head of department of public policy, City University of Hong Kong.
Monica E. M. Zikpi is the coordinator of the Chinese Flagship Program at the University of Oregon.
