Jean-Philippe Béja is a research professor emeritus at CNRS-CERI Sciences-Po in Paris. He has published extensively on state–society relations, the Party's policy towards intellectuals, the Chinese Democratic Movement and Hong Kong politics. Among his publications, he co-edited with Fu Hualing and Eva Pils, Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and The Challenges of Political Reform in China (Hong Kong University Press, 2012), and most recently “Xi Jinping's China: On the Road to Neo-totalitarianism,” Social Research: An International Quarterly 86 (1) 2019: 203–230.
Kevin Carrico is senior lecturer in Chinese studies at Monash University and the author of the forthcoming Two Systems, Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong.
Harriet Evans is professor emerita at the University of Westminster and visiting professor at LSE, London. She has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexuality in China, and on political posters and visual culture of the Mao era. Her most recent book is Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center (Duke University Press, 2020). She is currently co-editing with Michael Rowlands Grassroots Values: Local Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in China (Lexington Books, forthcoming).
Ding Fei is a development and economic geographer at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the relationship among state, capital and human agency in the uneven process of China's globalization, and its implications for industrial transformation and local capacity building in the “Global South.” Her empirical research examines the variegated construction of local work regimes by globalized Chinese state and private capitals in Ethiopia, with case studies of Chinese companies operating in multiple sectors in their overseas investment.
Mark W. Frazier is professor of politics at The New School for Social Research and Co-Director of the India China Institute at The New School (New York City). His research interests focus on labour and social policy in China, and more recently on political conflict over urbanization, migration and citizenship in China and India. He is the author of The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Tristan Kenderdine is research director at Future Risk (https://ftrsk.com).
Daniel Leese is professor of Chinese history and politics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His most recent publications include Victims, Perpetrators and the Role of Law in Maoist China (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018) and Maos langer Schatten: Chinas Umgang mit der Vergangenheit (Beck C.H., 2020).
Lin Chun is professor in comparative politics at the department of government, LSE. A focus of her many publications is the making and unmaking of Chinese socialism.
Janet C. Sturgeon is adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University. Her work has explored cross-border dynamics for ethnic minority peoples between China and neighbouring Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, one of the lingua franca in these borderlands. Her former PhD student, Sai Latt, examined cross-border flows of Shan people between Myanmar and Thailand in the context of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Jonathan Sullivan is director of the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham.
Patricia M. Thornton is an associate professor in the department of politics and international relations, and a tutor in the politics of China at Merton College, University of Oxford.
Susan H. Whiting is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on law and development, property rights and fiscal institutions.
