Nimrod Baranovitch is currently a senior lecturer of Chinese studies in the department of Asian studies, University of Haifa, Israel. His publications include: China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978–1997 (University of California Press, 2003), articles in The China Quarterly, The Journal of Asian Studies, Modern China and The China Journal, and contributions to several edited volumes and encyclopaedias

Jean-Philippe Béja is a senior research fellow emeritus at CNRS, Paris. He works on state–society relations, social protest and dissent in the PRC, and on Hong Kong politics.

Chris Berry is professor of film studies at King's College London. His academic research is grounded in work on Chinese cinema and other Chinese screen-based media, as well as neighbouring countries. Primary publications include: (with Mary Farquhar) Cinema and the National: China on Screen (Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006); Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (Routledge, 2004); Public Space, Media Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); and (edited with Lu Xinyu and Lisa Rofel), The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record (Hong Kong University Press, 2010).

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard is professor and director of the China Policy Program at Copenhagen Business School.

Christopher Cairns is a PhD candidate in the department of government, Cornell University.

Allen Carlson is associate professor in the department of government, Cornell University.

Chris King-chi Chan is an associate professor in the department of applied social sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. He gained his PhD at the University of Warwick and has published widely on Chinese labour, including the book The Challenge of Labour in China (Routledge, 2010) and articles in various leading journals.

Lanyan Chen is an associate professor of Nipissing University's School of Social and Human Development in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. Her published research includes a book on Gender and Chinese Development: Toward an Equitable Society, and articles in the Oxford Handbook Series, Development and Change, Feminist Economics, Socialist Studies, and Canadian Journal of Development Studies in areas of women's movements, rural women and food security, women's cooperatives, poverty reduction and micro-finance, health policy reforms, HIV/AIDS prevention and migration in China.

Ming-chin Monique Chu is lecturer in Chinese politics at the department of politics and international relations, University of Southampton. Her research interests include the impact of globalization on security with reference to semiconductors, the concepts of sovereignty and contested states, media and politics, Chinese foreign policy, and China–Taiwan relations. Her current research explores China's sovereignty challenges. She is the author of The East Asian Computer Chip War (Routledge, 2013) and an editor of Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait: In the Shadow of Power (co-edited with Scott L. Kastner; Routledge, 2014).

Brian DeMare is a cultural historian studying the Communist Party's great enterprise. He researches how Chinese citizens have negotiated with the politicization of their everyday lives. Mass campaigns, revolutionary art, and rural cultural workers are the primary concerns driving his research agenda.

Richard Louis Edmonds is retired after teaching at the University of Hong Kong, SOAS, King's College London and the University of Chicago. His interests focus around environmental studies and historical geography. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996 to 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 co-edited China's Embedded Activism (2007).

Andrew S. Erickson is an associate professor at the Naval War College and a research associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center.

King-wa Fu is associate professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on political participation and media use, computational media studies, mental health/suicide and the media, and young people's internet use.

Charlotte Goodburn is lecturer in Chinese politics and development at the Lau China Institute, King's College London. Her research focuses on rural–urban migration and development in China and India.

A. Tom Grunfeld is SUNY distinguished teaching professor at Empire State College/SUNY and a visiting scholar at New York University. He specializes in modern Chinese history including the history of Tibet. He is currently engaged in research on the politics of cultural security, especially as it relates to Tibet.

Rongbin Han is assistant professor at the department of international affairs, University of Georgia. His research focuses on Internet politics and social activism in China.

Robert Harmel is a professor of political science at Texas A&M University. His research has focused on political parties in industrialized democracies and, more recently, on political attitudes in China. He was organizing director of The China Survey in 2008.

Justin V. Hastings is a senior lecturer in international relations and comparative politics at the University of Sydney. He is the author of No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2010), and of a forthcoming book on North Korean trade networks.

Elaine Sio-ieng Hui is an assistant professor in the Penn State University. Her research interests include the state, laws, labour relations, class formation, civil society and social welfare system in China. She has published several articles in peer-review journals.

Isabella Jackson is assistant professor in Chinese history in the department of history and the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She researches the history of foreign colonialism in China.

Lucy Jones was formerly a project associate at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS), in the department of war studies, King's College London, and gained her PhD from King's in 2012. She now works in the private sector.

John James Kennedy is an associate professor in the department of political science, University of Kansas. His research is on local governance and social development; topics include local elections, tax reform, family planning, health care and the cadre management system.

Carl Kilcourse is lecturer in Chinese history at Nottingham Trent University.

Andreas Kuersten is a law clerk for the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He has previously held positions with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and both the US Navy and Air Force. He earned his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an MSc. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his BA in international development studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Yi-tze Lee is currently an assistant professor at the department of ethnic relations and culture, National Dong Hwa University. He earned his PhD in anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include indigenous community revitalization, agricultural technologies, affects and knowledge of environment, and ritual practice of the Amis (Taiwanese indigenous) people.

Lianjiang Li is professor at the department of government and public administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His articles appear in China Journal, The China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Modern China and Political Behaviour. He is the co-author (with Kevin J. O'Brien) of Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Joyce Y. M. Nip is a senior lecturer in the department of media and communications as well as department of Chinese studies in the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on media in Chinese societies. She is a member of the editorial board of Journalism Practice and Digital Journalism. In 2013–14, Joyce was a visiting associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. In 2004–15, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Christopher Peacock is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese literature at Columbia University. His work focuses on modern Tibetan culture and questions of ethnicity and nation in the People's Republic of China.

Jeffrey L. Richey is Francis Alexander McGaw Chair in Religion and associate professor of religion and Asian studies. He is author and editor of several books on Chinese religion, including The Sage Returns: Confucian Revival in Contemporary China (State University of New York Press, 2015), co-edited with Kenneth J. Hammond.

Stanley Rosen is a professor of political science at the University of Southern California and is currently co-editing a book on Chinese soft power.

Daniel Salisbury is a research associate at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS), in the department of war studies, King's College London.

Phillip Stalley is associate professor in political science at DePaul University.

Damian Tobin is lecturer in international management with reference to China at SOAS, University of London.

Gerda Wielander is reader in Chinese studies and head of modern languages and cultures at the University of Westminster, London.

Joel Wuthnow is a research analyst in CNA's China Studies Division.

Yihan Xiong is associate professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received his PhD (2009) in political science from Fudan University. His current research focuses upon politics of migration, political participation and ethnic conflicts. His articles have appeared in The China Quarterly and Sociological Studies.

Yao-Yuan Yeh is a lecturer in political science in the Schools of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced. He received his PhD from the department of political science at Texas A&M University in 2014.

Qingjie Zeng is a doctoral student of political science at the University of Michigan. His research explores central–local relations, bureaucratic management, and political economy in contemporary China.

Zhang Yun is a lecturer in the division of humanities and programme coordinator for the Global China Studies Programme at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She has published in the journals Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Modern China, Harvard Asia Quarterly and The China Journal. She is currently working on a book manuscript, The Rise of a Mixed Gendered Public Space: The Women's Press and the Making of Modern Women in China, 1898–1918, which is based on her 2015 PhD dissertation.