Ryan M. Allen is an assistant professor at Chapman University's Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies. He primarily works with the college's doctoral programme partnered with Shanghai Normal University. His research focus is on the internationalization of higher education.

Tani Barlow teaches modern Chinese history at Rice University. Currently she is reading and writing about philosophy and social theory in the 19th- and 20th-century Chinese intellectual communities.

Calvin Chen is associate professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College. His research interests include rural development, labour politics, and Chinese migration to Italy and Spain. He is the author of Some Assembly Required: Work, Community, and Politics in China's Rural Enterprises (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008).

Harriet Evans is professor emerita at the University of Westminster and visiting professor at LSE, London. She has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexuality in China, and on political posters and visual culture of the Mao era.

Edward Friedman is professor emeritus in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Edmund S.K. Fung is emeritus professor of Asian studies at Western Sydney University and an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

John W. Garver is emeritus professor at the Sam Nunn School of International affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

Jane Hayward is lecturer in political economy and development in China, King's College London.

Bill Hebenton is associate professor of criminology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on crime, criminal justice and criminology in Taiwan and China, and was co-editor of the Handbook of Asian Criminology (Springer, 2013) and Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology (Routledge, 2014). He is the current President of the Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in the United States.

Natasha Heller is a scholar of Chinese religion, specializing in Buddhism. She teaches in the department of religious studies at the University of Virginia and is currently completing a monograph on Taiwanese Buddhist children's literature.

Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of 20th-century Chinese history at Yale University. She is the author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Michelle F. Hsieh is an associate research fellow in the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Her research interests include economic sociology, sociology of development, comparative political economy, and East Asian societies. Her ongoing research explores the variations and consequences of industrial upgrading among the East Asian latecomers.

Lilian Iselin is an independent scholar of Central Asian studies, affiliated with the University of Bern. She is the author of Mobile Technologien und nomadischer Raum: Motoriserung, Mobiltelefonie und Urbanisierung in Südamdo, Osttibet (De Gruyter, 2017). Her current research focus is on infrastructure development, mobility and urbanisation in rural areas.

Tina Phillips Johnson is professor of history at Saint Vincent College and research associate at the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center. In addition to researching and writing about the history of women's health, she also works on contemporary public health projects in China.

Krystyn R. Moon is professor of history and director of American studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Her teaching and research include US immigration history, popular culture, race and ethnic studies, foodways, gender and sexuality, and consumerism. She is the author of Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s–1920s (Rutgers University Press, 2005), and several articles, essays, reviews and blogs on American immigration history, ethnic identity and the performing arts.

Daniel L. Overmyer, FRSC, is professor emeritus of Chinese studies in the department of Asian studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Sergey Radchenko is professor of international politics, Cardiff University.

Julia C. Strauss is professor of Chinese and comparative politics at SOAS University of London. She was editor of The China Quarterly from 2002–2011. She has written extensively on China–Africa and China–Latin America and has co-edited China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalization and Development (2009) and From the Great Wall to the New World: China and Latin America in the 21st Century (2012). She recently published State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Jonathan Sullivan is director of the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham.

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.