Lucien Bianco retired as professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. His most recent book, La récidive: révolution russe, révolution chinoise, was published in 2014 with Editions Gallimard, Paris.

Jeremy Brown is associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of City Versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide and editor of Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism (co-edited with Matthew D. Johnson) and Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China (co-edited with Paul G. Pickowicz). His research on the social history of accidents in the People's Republic of China has been supported by a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is also writing a new history of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Hon S. Chan is a professor in the department of public policy, City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on civil service reforms, cadre personnel management, and performance evaluation and management in China. He has published extensively in major journals in the field.

James Char is a research analyst with the China Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is the inaugural Wong Wai Ling Scholar in the Masters of Arts in Contemporary China (MACC) at NTU. His current research interests centre on Chinese domestic politics, civil–military relations in China as well as China's diplomatic strategies in the Global South.

Virgil K.Y. Ho teaches history of modern China at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His publications cover a wide range of topics including socio-cultural meanings of violence in modern China, social history of prostitution in modern and contemporary China, cultural history of monuments and tombs in revolutionary China, social history of opium smoking and gambling in South China and social architecture in urban China.

Lucetta Y. L. Kam is assistant professor in the department of humanities and creative writing, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Katherine Palmer Kaup is James B. Duke professor of Asian studies and political science at Furman University. Author of Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China (Lynne Rienner, 2000), her current project focuses on how conflicts between minority customary law and national law are resolved.

Andrew B. Kennedy teaches international politics, focusing on China and India, in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is the author of The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2012), as well as recent articles in Review of International Political Economy, The Pacific Review and Political Science Quarterly.

Jean Khalfa is a fellow and senior lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. He specializes in the history of philosophy, modern literature (in particular contemporary poetry and writing in French from North Africa and the Caribbean), aesthetics and anthropology. He has written at length on the history of négritude, co-edited an issue of Les Temps Modernes on China and Africa. His latest publication is an edition of Frantz Fanon's unpublished writings, Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté (La Découverte, 2015).

Chun Lin teaches at the London School of Economics and writes on political economy and historical sociology. Her latest book is China and Global Capitalism (2013).

John R. Logan is professor of sociology at Brown University. He is the founding director of the Urban China Research Network, and he has published a number of studies on urban change, class structure and family relations in China.

Elena Meyer-Clement is assistant professor of China Studies at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Armin Müller is a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of Society and Economy of Modern China at the University of Göttingen. He wrote his PhD at the Research Training Group “Risk and East Asia” (DFG GK 1613) of the University of Duisburg-Essen about the introduction of health insurance in rural China. He then joined the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University to work on Transnational Social Protection. His research interests include China's healthcare and social security, local governments, public finances, migration and education.

Runya Qiaoan is currently a PhD candidate in sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, and also a research fellow at the Institute of Asia Studies, Bratislava. In the past, she studied at University of Toronto, National Chengchi University and Utrecht University. Her research interests include civil society in China, cultural sociology and China–CEE relations. Her ongoing project focuses on the interactions between Chinese grassroots organizations and the state. Her recent publications include a co-authored article on “Moral Objectivism in Cross-Cultural Perspective” in the Journal of Cognition and Culture (2015).

Alain Roux is a retired university teacher at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations), Paris. His biography of Mao Zedong, Le Singe et le Tigre: Mao, un destin chinois (Larousse, 2009), has been translated and published in Chinese (Renmin daxue chubanshe, 2014).

Andrew Scobell is senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation based in Washington, DC, USA.

Elspeth Thomson is an energy consultant based in Victoria, BC, Canada. From 2008 to 2015 she was a senior fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore where her research spanned energy economics, energy security and energy and the environment in Southeast and East Asia.

Jonathan Unger is a professor at the Australian National University, and specialises in Chinese society. He has published 15 authored and edited books and is co-editor of The China Journal.

Ming Xia is a professor of political science of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center and the department of political science and global affairs, the College of Staten Island. He is the author of The Dual Developmental State, The People's Congresses and Governance in China, and Empire of the Red Sun (in Chinese).

Elaine J. Yuan is an associate professor in the communication department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on new media and Chinese society.