Nicole Elizabeth Barnes is Andrew W. Mellon assistant professor of history and gender, sexuality and feminist studies at Duke University. Her book Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945 (University of California Press, 2018) examines the role that female medical professionals played in creating the emotional bonds of a national community during China's War of Resistance against Japan.
Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard is professor of China studies in the department of international economics, government and business, and director of China studies at Copenhagen Business School. His latest publications include Critical Readings on the Chinese Communist Party, 4 vols. (Brill, 2017) and Chinese Politics as Fragmented Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2017).
Donald C. Clarke is a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, where he specializes in modern Chinese law.
Lucy Corkin is a strategist at FirstRand, Africa's largest financial institution by market capitalization. She holds a PhD in political science from SOAS University of London. Her doctoral thesis, published as Uncovering African Agency: Angola's Management of China's Credit Lines with Ashgate (now Taylor and Francis), has been translated into Portuguese.
Sheng Ding is professor of political science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His teaching and research interest include global governance, international security in Asia Pacific, and Asian politics.
Harriet Evans is professor emerita at the University of Westminster and visiting professor at LSE, London. Her latest book is The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).
Ray Forrest is research professor in cities and social change at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and emeritus professor of urban studies at the University of Bristol.
Richard S. Horowitz joined the history department at California State University Northridge in 1999 and served as department Chair from 2010 to 2016. Trained as a historian of modern China, he subsequently developed a second specialization in the emerging field of world history. His research explores the intersection of China and processes of global integration from the 1820s to the 1920s. He teaches courses on China, Japan, world history and historical methods.
Gordon Mathews is a professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Rana Mitter is professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford University, and author of China's War with Japan, 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival (Allen Lane, 2013).
Marc L. Moskowitz is a professor in the department of anthropology at the University of South Carolina. Focusing on the intersection between gender and popular culture in Chinese-speaking Asia, he is a recipient of the ACLS-NEH, Chiang Ching-Kuo, Fulbright, and Fulbright-Hays awards.
Pitman B. Potter is professor of law and director of Chinese legal studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His teaching and research focus on PRC and Taiwan law and policy in the areas of foreign trade and investment, dispute resolution, property law, contracts, business regulation and human rights. He has published over 100 articles and essays and several books, including The Legal System of the People's Republic of China (Polity Press, 2013) and Assessing Treaty Performance in China: Trade and Human Rights (UBC Press, 2014).
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.
Isabella M. Weber is a lecturer in economics at Goldsmiths, University of London, and affiliated with the Cambridge China Centre at Jesus College. For her book, Reassessing China's Reform Debate (forthcoming), she has conducted extensive oral history interviews with more than 50 key reform economists in China and internationally.
Susan H. Whiting is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of the Institutional Change (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and conducts research on property rights, law and fiscal reform. Her recent work appears in Comparative Political Studies, The China Quarterly and the Journal of Asian Studies.
Gerda Wielander is professor of Chinese studies and associate head (external relations) of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Westminster.
Jianfeng Zhu is associate professor of anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai. She gained her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota in 2008. She is the author of Winning the Competition at the Start Line: Chinese Modernity, Reproduction and the Desire for a “High Quality” Population (East China Normal University Press, 2014). Her research interests include reproductive health, selective reproductive technologies, genetic testing, mental health, bio-power and governmentality.
