Thomas P. Bernstein is professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University and a member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is working on authoritarian rule in Russia and China. His most recent publication is China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949–Present (Lexington, 2010), co-edited with Hua-yu Li.
Delia Davin is emeritus professor of Chinese studies at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Internal Migration in Contemporary China (Macmillan, 1999) and A Very Short Introduction to Mao (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013).
Richard Louis Edmonds is visiting professor in the geographical studies programme of the University of Chicago and a lecturer in Johns Hopkins University's undergraduate programme in Nanjing. His interests focus around environmental studies and historical geography. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996–2002. Dr Edmonds has written extensively on China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. He is the author of Macau (World Bibliographical Series, Oxford: Clio Press, 1989) and Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection (1994) and has edited or co-edited: Reappraising Republican China (2000), Managing The Chinese Environment (2000), The People's Republic of China After 50 Years (2000), Taiwan in the Twentieth Century: A Retrospective View (2001), and China's Embedded Activism (2007).
Dafydd Fell is a senior lecturer in Taiwan studies at the department of politics and international studies of SOAS, University of London, and deputy director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies. His first book was Party Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2005), which analysed party change in the first 15 years of multi-party competition. His latest book is Government and Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2011). He is also the book series editor for the new Routledge Research on Taiwan Series.
Edward Friedman is professor emeritus in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As chief editor, he led the project which resulted in the English-language version of Yang Jisheng's Tombstone (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2012), condensing and reorganizing a translation of a version of the 1,100-page Chinese original.
Greg Guldin is the author of The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski, to Moscow, to Mao and conducted years of social science research in China. He now heads up the applied anthropological firm Cross-Cultural Consulting Services, PLLC.
Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her publications include articles and books on the topics of minority education, Han migrations to minority areas, processes of individualization, and, most recently, high school education and perceptions of the individual in rural China.
Robert Hoffmann is an associate professor in economics at Nottingham University Business School. His research interests are in behavioural economics and in particular the economics of culture and economic psychology. He spent a total of six years as a secondee at the University of Nottingham's campuses in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Ningbo, China.
Paul R. Katz, a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, is a social historian of modern Chinese religions. He has authored six books and edited or co-edited nine volumes or special issues. His current research projects are about religious developments during the late Qing and Republican eras, and the interaction between Taoism and non-Han ritual traditions in western Hunan during the past century.
Jeremy Larner is a PhD candidate at Nottingham University Business School where he is completing a thesis in the area of experimental economics. He was previously a teaching fellow at the University of Nottingham's campus in Ninbo, China.
Carlos Wing-Hung Lo is a professor in the department of management and marketing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently researching on corporate environmental management and corporate social responsibility.
Marc L. Moskowitz is an associate professor in the department of anthropology at the University of South Carolina. A recipient of the ACLS-NEH, Chiang Ching-Kuo, Fulbright, and Fulbright-Hays research awards, Moskowitz lived in Taiwan for over ten years and has published on a wide range of issues including religion, popular culture and gender. He has written three books, including Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Popular Music (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010).
Xiaopeng Pang is an associate professor in the School of Agriculture, Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis, and taught contemporary Chinese economy in English at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan in 2007 and 2011. Her research focuses on village elections in China, poverty reduction and rural development, agricultural policy and gender perspectives on economic issues. Her papers have been published in ASIEN, Computers and Education, and Research on Agricultural Economy.
Robert Peckham is co-director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and assistant professor in the history of medicine at The University of Hong Kong. Recent and forthcoming publications include the volume Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia, co-edited with David M. Pomfret, and the edited collection Disease and Crime: a History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health.
Judy Polumbaum is a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, and a visiting professor at City University of Hong Kong (2012 and 2013).
James Reilly is a senior lecturer in the department of government and international relations at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy (Columbia University Press, 2012), and the co-editor of Australia and China at 40 (UNSW Press, 2012). He has published several book chapters in edited volumes, as well as articles in: Asian Survey, China: An International Journal, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Journal of Contemporary China, Modern Asian Studies, Survival and Washington Quarterly. He also served as the East Asia representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in China from 2001 to 2008.
Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth senior fellow and the co-director of the rural education action programme at Stanford University. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Economic Development and Cultural Change. His research focuses on Chinese agricultural policy, rural resources and the economics of education and health. His papers have been published in Science, Nature, American Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Literature, amongst others. Dr. Rozelle received the Friendship Award in 2008, the highest award given to a non-Chinese by the Premier.
Ian Scott is a visiting professor in the department of public and social administration at the City University of Hong Kong.
Jonathan Sullivan is associate professor in contemporary Chinese studies, University of Nottingham. His research focuses on political competition and political communications in various Chinese contexts.
Shui-Yan Tang is Frances R. and John J. Duggan distinguished professor in public administration at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California.
Jessica C. Teets is an assistant professor in the political science department at Middlebury College, Vermont. Her research focuses on governance in China, specifically the role of civil society such as non-profits, NGOs and associations.
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 in Europe. His latest book is Organizing Rural China – Rural China Organizing (ed. 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 the author of Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence and State-making in Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2007).
Weipin Tsai is a historian of modern China, focusing on the processes of globalization and localization from the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century. His research interests are modern Chinese cartography, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service and the Chinese Postal Service.
Jerry A. Varsava is professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He has published extensively on contemporary fiction, and has a particular interest in the political novel. His article on Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem appeared in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE) in 2011 and his interview of Ha Jin in Contemporary Literature in 2010.
Ulrich Volz is a senior lecturer in development economics at SOAS, University of London, and a senior research fellow at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). In the academic year 2011–2012 he was a visiting professor at Peking University's School of Economics. He has held other visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Birmingham, the European Central Bank and Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. Ulrich was a Fox International Fellow and Max Kade Scholar at Yale University, and also worked at the European Central Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Tim Wright is emeritus professor of Chinese studies at the University of Sheffield, and author of Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895–1937 (Cambridge University Press, 1984) and The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-Stained Coal (Routledge, 2012). He is currently editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies.
Jiang Xu is associate professor in the department of geography and resource management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an urban and regional specialist and co-author of Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market and Space and co-editor of Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions. She is the recipient of the 2008 Research Output Prize of the University of Hong Kong and the 2011–2012 Research Excellence Award of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Wai-Hang Yee is assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Anthony G. O. Yeh, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is chair professor and head of the department of urban planning and design and director of the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning of the University of Hong Kong. His main areas of specialization are in urban development and planning in Hong Kong and China and the application of GIS in urban and regional planning. He received the UN-HABITAT Lecture Award in 2008 for his outstanding and sustained contribution to research, thinking and practice in the human settlements field.
Peter Zeitz is assistant professor of strategy and policy at the National University of Singapore Business School.
Junxia Zeng is a postdoctoral fellow in School of Agriculture Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University of China. She has been a one-year visiting researcher at Stanford University in 2011. Her research focuses on rural education, poverty reduction and gender perspectives on economic issues in China.
Jing Vivian Zhan is assistant professor in the department of government and public administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She specializes in comparative politics and quantitative methodology, with a focus on the political economy of China's post-Mao reforms, intergovernmental relations and local governance. Her recent scholarly articles have appeared in journals including Asian Politics and Policy, Asian Survey, China Review, Crime, Law and Social Change, and the Journal of Contemporary China.
Taomo Zhou is a PhD candidate at the department of history, Cornell University. Her current project focuses on the diplomatic relations and transnational social interactions between China and Indonesia in the Cold War era.
