Philip Andrews-Speed is a principal fellow at the Energy Studies Institute of the National University of Singapore. Recent books include China, Oil and Global Politics (Routledge, 2011) with Roland Dannreuther, The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), and Want, Waste or War? The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals (Routledge, 2015) with five co-authors.
T. H. Barrett is professor of East Asian history at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of a number of studies of the history of Chinese religion and of Western writing on China, most recently The Woman Who Discovered Printing (Yale University Press, 2008).
Gregor Benton is associated with the history programme at Nanyang Technological University.
Marc Blecher is professor of politics and East Asian studies at Oberlin College, and the author of China against the Tides, and of Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County (with Vivienne Shue) and Micropolitics in Contemporary China (with Gordon White).
Bettina Bluemling is lecturer in environmental social sciences at the University of Glasgow, as well as research fellow at the Research Institute IAMO (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies), Germany. She has extensively published in the field of rural environmental sociology in China, and has coordinated international research projects on China.
John P. Burns is dean of social sciences and chair professor of politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests focus on contemporary Chinese politics and public administration, including Hong Kong. Recent work includes “Changing governance structures and the evolution of public service bargains in Hong Kong” (with Li Wei and B. Guy Peters) International Review of Administrative Sciences 79:1 (March, 2013), 131–48.
Yongshun Cai teaches in the division of social science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of The State and Agents in China: Disciplining Government Officials (2014).
Feng Chen is a professor in the department of government and international studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He writes extensively on China's labour issues.
Ivan Franceschini is a visiting fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra.
Edward Friedman is professor emeritus in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Julian B. Gewirtz is a doctoral student in modern Chinese history at Oxford University, where he is a Rhodes scholar.
Christian Göbel is university professor of modern China studies at the University of Vienna, department of East Asian studies. A political scientist and Sinologist by training, his research is concerned with the adaptability of the Chinese Party-state to social, economic and political challenges. He is especially interested in the effects of digital technology on local governance in China.
Charlotte Goodburn is a lecturer in Chinese politics and development at the Lau China Institute, King's College London. Her current research focuses on rural–urban migration in China and India.
Enze Han is senior lecturer at the department of politics and international studies, SOAS, University of London. His research interests include ethnic politics in China and China's relations with Southeast Asia. His recent publications include Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China (OUP, 2013), and various articles appearing in The Journal of Contemporary China, The China Quarterly, Nationalities Papers, Security Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
Rachel Harris is reader in the music of Central Asia and China at SOAS, University of London.
Emily Honig is professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919–1949, Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s (with Gail Hershatter), and Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850–1980.
Xian Huang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania. She received a PhD of political science from Columbia University in 2014. Her research interests include political economy of development, politics of inequality and redistribution, social policy, authoritarian regimes, Chinese politics and Chinese political economy.
Steven F. Jackson is a professor of political science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
John James Kennedy is associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Kansas (KU). He is also the director of the Center for Global and International Studies at KU.
André Laliberté is professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa. He works on religion and state, philanthropy and social policy, and the rights of migrant workers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
Jie Li is an assistant professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University. Teaching and researching in the areas of modern Chinese literary, film and cultural studies, she is the author of Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life and is currently working on a book entitled Utopian Ruins: A Memory Museum of the Mao
Li Wei is assistant professor in the department of government and public administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research and teaching interests include the politics of bureaucracy, government reform and policy processes, with an area focus on China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Her recent co-authored publication appeared in the International Review of Administrative Sciences.
Charis Loh recently graduated from the MIT Master of Science in political science program and is working as a research assistant at Harvard Business School.
Carl Minzner is an expert in Chinese law and governance. He has written extensively on these topics in both academic journals and the popular press, including op-eds appearing in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. Recent academic works include “China's turn against law”, in the American Journal of Comparative Law (2011) exploring Chinese authorities' shift against legal reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, and “The rise and fall of Chinese legal education” in the Fordham International Law Journal (forthcoming), examining both the expansion of Chinese legal education since the late 1990s, and its impending retrenchment.
Kathryn Mohrman is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, where she also directs the University Design Consortium, a joint project with Sichuan University. Past experiences include president of Colorado College USA, executive director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and Fulbright scholar in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea.
Nele Noesselt is research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies; lecturer in Chinese politics at the University of Hamburg and the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Tim Oakes is professor of geography and director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His recent books include Real Tourism: Practice, Care, and the Politics of Contemporary Travel Culture (2011) and Faiths on Display: Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State (2010).
Elizabeth J. Remick is associate professor in the political science department at Tufts University.
Dong-Wook Song is professor of transport and logistics at the transport research institute, Edinburgh Napier University. Prior to the current post, he worked at Heriot-Watt and Hong Kong Universities. Song has received a number of academic awards including “The Maritime Policy and Management Award for the Best Paper” at the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Annual Conferences; “The Best Paper Award” at the Asian Association of Shipping and Logistics; and “The Best Paper of the Year 2009” from the International Journal of Logistics Research and Application. He is currently an editor and associate editor of two major research outlets in the field – Internal Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications and Maritime Policy and Management.
Anthony J. Spires is associate professor of sociology and associate director of the Centre for Civil Society Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on philanthropy and the organizational culture of civil society organizations.
Chloë Starr is associate professor of Asian Christianity and theology at Yale Divinity School. Her latest volume, Chinese Theology, will be published in 2016.
Jonathan Sullivan is associate professor and deputy director of the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham. He tweets @jonlsullivan.
Tobias ten Brink is adjunct professor at the Institute for Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Jeremy L. Wallace is assistant professor of political science at Ohio State University. He recently published Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Yuhua Wang received a BA and an MA in political science from Peking University, and a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan in 2011. He is the author of Tying the Autocrat's Hands: The Rise of the Rule of Law in China (Cambridge University Press). His articles have appeared in the China Journal, the China Review, The China Quarterly, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Journal of Peking University (Beijing daxue xuebao), and Studies in Comparative International Development.
Jessica Chen Weiss is assistant professor of political science at Yale University and research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. She is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Max D. Woodworth is an assistant professor in the department of geography at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on contemporary urban political economy and urbanism with a regional emphasis on cities in China's west.
Wu Zhang is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her main research interests are local government and popular protest in contemporary China. She is currently working on rural development policies (“constructing the new socialist countryside”) in response to peasant protest. Her work has appeared in The China Journal (January 2015), Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (2013). Her Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society is forthcoming.
Yin-Fang Zhang is a member of academic staff at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. Her research interests include regulation, regulatory governance and reform, privatization, economic development, economic reform in China. She has published in internationally reputable journals on regulation and privatization in public utility sectors. Her recent research focuses on environmental issues in China's energy sector.
Xiaojian Zhao is professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940–1965 (2002, winner of the History Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies), The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy (2010), and Asian American Chronology (2009). She is also co-editor (with Edward Park) of Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History (2013).
Wenjia Zhuang is an assistant professor in the Centre for Chinese Public Administration Research, within the school of government, Sun Yat-sen University.
