Regina Enjuto Martinez is a research officer at the department of international development at LSE. She currently researches the politics of government contracting of social services to NGOs in China.

Dafydd Fell is reader in comparative politics with special reference to Taiwan at the department of political and international studies of SOAS University of London. He is also the director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies. He has published numerous articles on political parties and electioneering in Taiwan. His first book was Party Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2005), which analysed party change in the first 15 years of multi-party competition. His second book was Government and Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2011) and the second edition was published in early 2018. He co-edited Migration to and from Taiwan (Routledge, 2013) and his next edited volume, Social Movements in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou was published with Routledge in 2017. He is also the book series editor for the Routledge Research on Taiwan Series.

Magnus Fiskesjö was educated in his native Sweden, and at the University of Chicago, where he received a joint PhD in anthropology and in East Asian languages and civilizations, in 2000. Earlier, he served in the Swedish embassies in Beijing and in Tokyo; and in 2000–2005 he was director of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2005, he has been teaching anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University. His research interests include ethnic relations and history, as well as heritage and museum issues, in East and Southeast Asia.

Eli Friedman is associate professor of international and comparative labour at Cornell University's ILR School. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (Cornell University Press, 2014).

Mette Halskov Hansen is professor in China studies at the University of Oslo. She has published widely on issues of ethnic relations, migrations to border regions in China, individualization processes and education and, most recently, the social and political consequences of environmental degradation in China. She is currently directing an interdisciplinary research project on the human dimensions of air pollution in China that includes scholars from chemistry, anthropology, political science, media science and sinology. Recent publications include the monograph Educating the Chinese Individual (University of Washington Press), and a special section of The China Quarterly on air pollution in China.

Daniel R. Hammond is lecturer in Chinese politics and society at the University of Edinburgh. He has published on social assistance systems in China and the perception of China in international media.

Tristan Kenderdine is PhD candidate at Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific and Research director at Future Risk.

Ann Kent is the author of numerous books, articles and working papers on China's human rights. She has been an Australian Research Council research fellow at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University, a visiting scholar at the East Asian Institute, Columbia University (1996) and has taught at Shanghai Teachers' University (1975) and Fudan University, Shanghai (2005).

James Leibold is an associate professor in the department of politics and philosophy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

Lillian M. Li is professor emerita of history at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s–1990s (Stanford University Press, 2007), and co-author of Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Hanchao Lu is professor of history at Georgia Tech, specializing in the history of modern China. His publications include three award-winning books: Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century (University of California Press, 1999/2004), Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars (Stanford University Press, 2005), and The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond (University of Washington Press, 2010). He is the editor of The Chinese Historical Review and director of the China Research Center in Atlanta.

Andrew Mertha is professor of government at Cornell University, specializing in Chinese and Cambodian politics, particularly on political institutions, the policy process, and the exercise of power.

Nele Noesselt is professor of political science with a special focus on China and East Asia at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). Her current research focuses on governance innovation and policy experimentation in China; Chinese political philosophy; Chinese International Relations theories; China’s role in world affairs.

Hai Ren is distinguished professor at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing and associate professor of East Asian studies and anthropology at the University of Arizona.

Julia C. Strauss is a professor of Chinese politics in the department of politics and international relations, SOAS Univeristy of London.

Janet C. Sturgeon did research on ethnic minority farmers’ resource access and cross-border relations in southern Yunnan and neighbouring parts of Burma and Laos from 1995 until her retirement in 2016. She remains an adjunct professor in the department of geography at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, and is the author of Border Landscapes: the Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand.

Katherine Swancutt is a senior lecturer in the anthropology of religion and director of the Religious and Ethnic Diversity in China and Asia Research Unit at King's College London. She has conducted anthropological fieldwork across Inner Asia on animistic and shamanic religions. Her current work focuses on dreams, fame and the production of ethnology and anthropology in China. Chief publications include a co-edited volume titled Animism beyond the Soul: Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge (Berghahn, 2018, first published in 2016 as a special issue of Social Analysis) and Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination (Berghahn, 2012).

Jessica C. Teets is an associate professor in the political science department at Middlebury College. Her research focuses on governance in authoritarian regimes, especially sources of change such as local policy experimentation and civil society. She is the author of Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and editor (with William Hurst) of Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (Routledge Contemporary China Series, 2014).

Stig Thøgersen is professor of China studies at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. He has published on social and political change in rural China in the 20th and 21st centuries and co-edited Organizing Rural China – Rural China Organizing (Lexington Books, 2012). He is currently working on a book on Chinese perceptions of children and childhood.

Sebastian Veg is a professor of intellectual history and literature of 20th-century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, and an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong. His interests are in 20th-century Chinese intellectual history, literature, and political debates.

Felix Wemheuer is professor for modern China studies at the University of Cologne.

Valeria Zanier is assistant professor in contemporary Chinese studies (Sinologie Research Unit) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her research interests focus on the role of business actors in processes of modernization and political change. In 2013, Dr Zanier was awarded a Marie Curie (IEF) Fellowship, which was hosted by the department of international history at LSE. Her publications include: From the Great Experiment to the Harmonious Society: Thirty Years of Economic Reforms to Build a New China [in Italian] (Franco Angeli, 2011); the Special Issue “Circumventing the Cold War: the parallel diplomacy of economic and cultural exchanges between Western Europe and Socialist China in the 1950s and 1960s” (co-edited with A. Romano) and “Western European Industrialists and China's Dream of Self-reliance: the Case of ENI (1956–1965),” Modern Asian Studies 51(1), 2017. She also contributed a chapter in: China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s in Global Perspective, edited by Odd Arne Westad and Priscilla Roberts, Palgrave (forthcoming).