Björn Alpermann is professor of contemporary Chinese studies at Würzburg University, Germany. His current research focus is on social stratification and political culture in urban China. Alpermann's most recent books are Politics and Markets in Rural China (Routledge, 2011) and China's Cotton Industry: Economic Transformation and State Capacity (Routledge, 2010).
Jennifer E. Altehenger obtained her doctorate from the University of Heidelberg and is currently a lecturer in contemporary Chinese history at King's College London. Her research focuses on PRC history, in particular the history of propaganda production and legal literacy under Communism as well as the history of socialist cultural production in a transnational perspective.
Ramses Amer is a visiting senior fellow at the school of humanities and social sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His major areas of research are security issues and conflict resolution in South-East Asia and the wider Pacific Asia, and the role of the United Nations in the international system. He is the author of The Sino-Vietnamese Approach to Managing Boundary Disputes, Maritime Briefing, Vol. 3, No. 5 (Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit, University of Durham, 2002). He is co-editor, with Carlyle A. Thayer, of Vietnamese Foreign Policy in Transition (Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies; and, New York, NY: St Martin's Press, 1999) and with Zou Keyuan, of Conflict Management and Dispute Settlement in East Asia (Ashgate, 2011).
David Bachman is a professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies specializing in Chinese foreign relations and domestic politics.
T. H. Barrett is professor of East Asian history at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of a number of studies of the history of Chinese religion and of Western writing on China, most recently The Woman Who Discovered Printing (Yale University Press, 2008).
Cosima Bruno teaches at SOAS, University of London. Her main research interests include transnational literature, contemporary Chinese poetry, and translation studies. She is the author of the book Between the Lines: Yang Lian's Poetry through Translation (Brill, 2012) and has published literary translations and essays in Italian, English and Chinese.
Yixin Chen is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His articles have appeared in Agricultural History, the Chinese Historical Review, Twentieth-Century China and Journal of Contemporary China. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines China's Great Leap Forward famine from the village-level perspective.
Howard Chiang is assistant professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Warwick, UK. He received his PhD in history at Princeton University. He is the editor of Transgender China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Richard Cullen is visiting professor in the faculty of law at Hong Kong University. He has been based in Hong Kong for over 16 years and has written and co-written several books and many articles focused on Hong Kong and China.
Yanhua Deng is an associate professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. Her research centres on contentious politics and environmental politics. She won a dissertation award from the Chengchi University Press in Taiwan. Her work has appeared in top Chinese academic journals like Zhongguo shehui kexue (Social Sciences in China) and Shehuixue yanjiu (Sociological Studies).
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 deputy director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies and is the coordinator for the European Association of Taiwan Studies. His latest book is Government and Politics in Taiwan (Rouledge, 2011).
Bates Gill is chief executive officer of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He was previously the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 2007 to 2012 and led China- and Asia-focused policy research programmes at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. His most recent books include Governing the Bomb: Civilian Control and Democratic Accountability of Nuclear Weapons (co-editor, Oxford University Press, 2010) and Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Institution Press, revised edition, 2010).
A. Tom Grunfeld is SUNY distinguished teaching professor at Empire State College/SUNY. He specializes in the teaching of the history of East Asia and has published widely on the modern history and politics of Tibet.
Jennifer Holdaway is a programme director and China representative at the Social Science Research Council. She heads the China Environment and Health Initiative (CEHI) and is co-director of the interdisciplinary Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD).
Robert Hoppens is assistant professor in the department of history and philosophy at the University of Texas Pan-American. He received his PhD in modern Japanese history from the University of Washington and specializes in the history of modern Sino-Japanese relations.
Austin Jersild is associate professor of history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Thomas Johnson is an assistant professor in the department of public and social administration at City University of Hong Kong. His main research interest concerns environmental activism in China.
Peng-Hsiang Kao is assistant professor in the department of food and beverage management at the China University of Science and Technology, Taipei, ROC, and a researcher at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PRC. He published Wenhua guanguang (Culture and Tourism; Taipei: Dingmao tushu) in 2009. His research interests include organization theory and marketing theory (political, food and beverage, tourism).
Jakob A. Klein is lecturer in social anthropology at SOAS, University of London. He has carried out ethnographic research in and around the southern Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Kunming on topics including restaurant culture, regional cuisine and the branding of local speciality foods; on local responses to food safety problems; and on ethical food movements.
Chengfang Liu is assistant professor in the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She obtained her PhD from University of California, Davis. Her research fields include education and public investment.
Anna Lora-Wainwright is university lecturer in the human geography of China at the University of Oxford. She works on Chinese villagers' attitudes and responses to illness, pollution and development more broadly. She is the author of Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village (2013).
Stanley Lubman is distinguished resident lecturer (retired) at the Berkeley Law School of the University of California. He is the author of Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China after Mao (Stanford University Press, 1999), co-editor of Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice (Stanford University Press, 2005), and editor of the Evolution of Law Reform in China: Pursuing an Uncertain Path (Edward Elgar, 2012)
Suzanne P. Ogden is professor of political science at Northeastern University and a specialist on Chinese politics. She has written extensively on the relationship between China's development, culture and politics. Her current work focuses on China's involvement with the cross-boundary issue of integrated water resource management in the Mekong River Basin.
Dragan Pavlićevicć is PhD candidate at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. From 2000 to 2010 he studied and worked in China, and has obtained academic degrees from the University of Belgrade and Renmin University of China. He researches political reform in urban China, China's party-state, state–society relations in China, as well as Sino-European relationships.
Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth senior fellow and the co-director of the rural education action programme at Stanford University. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Economic Development and Cultural Change. His research focuses on Chinese agricultural policy, rural resources and the economics of education and health. His papers have been published in Science, Nature, American Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Literature, amongst others. Dr. Rozelle has received the Friendship Award in 2008, the highest award given to a non-Chinese by the Premier.
Helen M. Schneider is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and the author of Keeping the Nation's House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China (UBC Press, 2011). Her current work examines the role of educated Chinese women in social mobilization during China's War against Japan.
Yaojiang Shi is professor at the School of Economics and Management, Northwest University. His research focuses on education, nutrition and poverty in China.
Phillip Stalley is an assistant professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago.
Long Sun is associate professor of political science at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. His main research focuses on local elections and contentious politics in urban China, and democratic transition and social science research methodology. His book Civic Participation was published by China Social Science Press (2011).
Richard P. Suttmeier is professor of political science, emeritus, at the University of Oregon. He has written widely on science and technology development issues in China including, most recently, China's IP Transition: Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights in a Rising China (with Yao Xiangkui) (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2011).
Jessica C. Teets is an assistant professor in the political science department at Middlebury College, Vermont. Her research focuses on governance in authoritarian regimes, specifically the role of civil society such as nonprofits, NGOs and associations. Dr. Teets possesses a research emphasis on Chinese politics, conducting frequent field research in China. She is the author of “Let Many Civil Societies Bloom: the Rise of Consultative Authoritarianism in China,” published in The China Quarterly in 2013, and “Reforming Service Delivery in China: the Emergence of a Social Innovation Model” in the Journal of Chinese Political Science in March 2012. Dr. Teets was recently selected to participate in the Public Intellectuals Program created by the National Committee on United States–China Relations (NCUSCR).
Bryan Tilt is an associate professor of anthropology at Oregon State University. His research focuses on sustainable development, agricultural systems, pollution control, and water resources in China and the United States. He is the author of the book, The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society, published by Columbia University Press in 2010.
Wen-Hsuan Tsai is an assistant research fellow, at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica (Taiwan). His research interests include political reform in the PRC, CCP political institutions, comparative politics, and comparative authoritarian regimes.
Xiaobing Wang is assistant professor in the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Her research focuses on the development of labour market, poverty and productivity analysis in China and other transition countries.
Zhengxu Wang is lecturer at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies and Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the China Policy Institute (CPI), University of Nottingham. He researches on citizen values and political behaviours in China and East Asia, institutional changes and political reforms in China's, perceptions of other powers in international politics, and elite politics in China, among other topics. He publishes widely in the major academic journals, and frequently comments on China's political and international issues on the media.
Liuqing Xu received her MA from the department of political science, Renmin University of China in 2008. She is currently based in Beijing and researching on local governance in urban China.
Guobin Yang is an associate professor of communication and sociology in the Annenberg School for Communication and department of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bell Yung is professor emeritus of music at the University of Pittsburgh. His recent books include The Last of China's Literati (2008), Music and Cultural Rights (2009, co-editor with Andrew Weintraub), and the chapter on music in A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America (2013). His forthcoming work is Uncle Ng Comes to America: Chinese Narrative Songs of Immigration and Love (2013, co-editor with Eleanor S. Yung).
Linxiu Zhang is professor and deputy director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She has published widely both in domestic and international professional journals.
Xiaoling Zhang is associate professor in Chinese studies in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.
