Anna L. Ahlers is associate professor of China studies at the University of Oslo. Trained in Sinology and political science, her research interests include the administrative system, local governance and policy implementation in China, as well as the comparative analysis of political inclusion in authoritarian contexts. Her recent publications include Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: New Socialist Countryside (Routledge, 2014).
Jennifer E. Altehenger is lecturer in contemporary Chinese history at King's College London. Her research focuses on the sociocultural and legal history of the People's Republic of China. She has published on the history of propaganda, cultural production, lexicography and the dissemination of legal knowledge during the Mao era and after.
Michael Barr is senior lecturer in international politics at Newcastle University. He is the author of Who's Afraid of China? (Zed Books, 2011) and Green Politics in China (Pluto Press, 2013).
Brian C. H. Fong is associate director of the Academy of Hong Kong Studies, the Education University of Hong Kong.
David S. G. Goodman is professor and head of the department of China studies at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in Suzhou, where he is also head of humanities and social sciences. His research concentrates on social and political change in China at the local level, and his most recent book is Class in Contemporary China (Polity 2014).
Chung-yin Kwan is a PhD candidate in the department of politics and international studies at SOAS University of London. His thesis focuses on the relationship between political parties and social movements in both Taiwan and Hong Kong. His research interests are party politics, social movement and electoral studies.
James Leibold is an associate professor of politics and Asian studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of over 25 books and articles on nationalism, ethnicity and the politics of identity in modern China.
Yi Li is a research associate at SOAS University of London. Between 2013 and 2015 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She received her PhD from SOAS in 2012 and her research interests include colonial and postcolonial history of the Burmese Chinese community, Chinese migration and diaspora, and modern Southeast Asian history.
Fengshu Liu is professor in comparative and international education at the University of Oslo. Recent publication themes include: youth and the internet, identity construction of China's only-child generation, intergenerational relationships in only-child families, university students and their middle-class self, gender and education, rural youth and basic education, culture and education, Confucian self-cultivation, Chinese youth negotiating modern womanhood and manhood, childhood over three generations and the rise of the “priceless” child in China. She is the author of Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self (Routledge, 2013).
Robert B. Marks is professor of history and environmental studies at Whittier College. He is the author of China: An Environmental History, 2nd ed. (2017), Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China (1998), and The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century, 3rd ed. (2015).
Andrew Mertha is professor of government at Cornell University and the author of Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979 (Cornell University Press, 2014).
Raj Verma is an independent researcher based in China. He is the author of India and China in Africa: A Comparative Perspective of the Oil Industry (Routledge, 2016) and series editor of the Routledge series on India-China Studies.
Pu Wang is assistant professor of Chinese and the Helaine and Alvin Allen Chair in Literature at Brandeis University. His forthcoming book is about Guo Moruo, translation and the Chinese revolution.
Tim Wright is emeritus professor of Chinese studies at the University of Sheffield and adjunct professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies and author of The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal (Routledge, 2012) as well as of numerous articles on China's modern economic history and political economy.
Haiqing Yu is associate professor of contemporary Chinese media and culture in the School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Media and Cultural Transformation in China (Routledge, 2009) and Sex in China (co-authored with Elaine Jeffreys, Polity, 2015).
