Adam Cathcart is lecturer in Chinese history at the University of Leeds. His most recent book is Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), co-edited with Christopher Green and Steven Denney.
Chris King-chi Chan is an associate professor at the department of sociology, and the director of the Centre for Social Innovation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main research is on labour and social development in China.
Andrew Chubb is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the department of politics, philosophy and religion at Lancaster University.
Daniel Fuchs is assistant professor at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. His research focuses on migration, labour relations and industrial policy in China and the global South.
Ming-sho Ho is a professor at the department of sociology, National Taiwan University and the director of Research Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan). His research interests include social movements, labour and environmental issues. He recently published Challenging Beijing's Mandate from Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement (Temple University Press, 2019).
Minhua Ling is associate professor in the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the processes of migration and urbanization and their sociocultural ramifications as experienced by individuals and communities. She has published single-authored research articles in international journals such as The China Quarterly, China Journal, Anthropological Quarterly, Urban Studies, and Positions: Asia Critique. Her book, The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge (Stanford University Press, 2020), offers the first longitudinal study of second-generation rural-to-urban migrant youth navigating from middle school to the labour market and how they make sense of everyday practices of urban inclusion and exclusion.
Shao-Hua Liu is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Xiaoning Lu is reader in modern Chinese culture and language at SOAS University of London. She is the author of Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity, 1949–1966 (Brill, 2020) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Rachel Murphy is professor of Chinese development and society and a fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. She recently published The Children of China's Great Migration (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
James Reilly is an associate professor in the department of government and international relations at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Orchestration: China's Economic Statecraft across Asia and Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021). He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford. He also served as the East Asia Representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in China from 2001–2008.
Carl Riskin is emeritus distinguished professor of economics at Queens College, City University of New York, and senior research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Jesse Rodenbiker is an Aktinson postdoctoral fellow in sustainability at Cornell University in the department of natural resources and the environment, and a visiting assistant professor in the department of geography at Rutgers University. Rodenbiker is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on issues of environmental governance, urbanization and sustainable development in China. Rodenbiker's work appears in Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Land Use Policy, Qualitative Research and other venues.
Eric Schluessel is an assistant professor of history and international affairs at the George Washington University. He is a social historian of China and Central Asia.
Cheryl M. Schmitz is an anthropologist currently based at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her research on Chinese–Angolan relations has appeared in HAU, Made in China Journal and American Anthropologist.
Jonathan Sullivan is associate professor and deputy director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham. He tweets @jonlsullivan.
Juan Wang is associate professor of political science at McGill. Her earlier research interests in the political economy of development in China's rural areas have led her to the research territory of contentious politics and law and politics. Her latest works, some of which are collaborative, have appeared in Governance (2021), Problems of Post-Communism (2020), Journal of Comparative Law (2020), Asian Journal of Law and Society (2019), Modern China (2019), and Crime, Law and Social Change (2018).
Eveline Washul is assistant professor of Tibetan studies in the department of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University. She was formerly director of the modern Tibetan studies programme at Columbia University. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology and Tibetan studies from Indiana University in 2018. Her research combines ethnography with Tibetan historical sources from the 12th to the 20th century to study the particularities of Tibetan relationships to places and how these shape the transition from rural to urban livelihoods in the late-socialist reform period in the People's Republic of China.
