Limin Bai is senior lecturer in Chinese studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she specializes in the social and cultural history of education from late imperial to contemporary China.
Deborah Brautigam is the Bernard L. Schwartz professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) where she directs the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI). She is the author of three books on China in Africa, including The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Will Africa Feed China? (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Antonella Ceccagno teaches sociology of East Asia and Chinese linguistics at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is interested in the emergence of new labour regimes and the role of migrants in processes of urban, regional, and industry restructuring. She has written extensively on the Chinese migrants in the Italian Fashion Industry. She is the author of the book City Making and Global Labor Regimes (Palgrave, 2017). Her current ethnographic research revolves around the mobility of workers living at work and processes of ethnicization of the workforce. Her current research also questions – from a European perspective – the scholarly approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exported and dominating worldwide.
Shelly Chan is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018).
Edmund W. Cheng is an associate professor at the department of public policy at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include contentious politics, political sociology, public opinion, Hong Kong politics and global China. He has recently co-edited An Epoch of Social Movements (Chinese University Press, 2018) and The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong (Amsterdam University Press, 2019) and has published articles in The China Quarterly, China Journal, Political Studies and Mobilization.
Brian C.H. Fong is associate director/associate professor of the Academy of Hong Kong Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include China's influence, territorial autonomy, democratization, legislative studies and budgetary politics. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals such as The China Quarterly, Modern China, Asian Survey, Democratization, and International Review of Administrative Sciences.
Jonathan Goldstein is professor of East Asian studies (emeritus) at the University of West Georgia, US, and a research affiliate of Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His books include Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia (DeGruyter, 2015), Stephen Girard's Trade with China (MerwinAsia, 2011), China and Israel (Praeger, 1999; Chinese ed. 2006; Hebrew ed. 2016), The Jews of China (M.E. Sharpe, 1999 and 2000), America Views China (Lehigh University Press, 1991), and Philadelphia and the China Trade (Penn State University Press, 1978).
Sheena Chestnut Greitens is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for East Asian Policy at the Brookings Institution and an associate in research at the Harvard Fairbank Center. Her book, Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, was published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press.
Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of history at Yale University. She is the author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Madeline Y. Hsu is professor of history and Asian American Studies at UT Austin. Her third book, Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Jennifer W. Jay is professor of history and classics at the University of Alberta. She teaches in all periods of Chinese history and has published on gender, women and eunuchs in pre-modern China.
James Leibold is associate professor of politics and Asian studies at La Trobe University and the head of the department of politics, media and philosophy. His research focuses on the politics of ethnicity, race and national identity in modern Chinese history and society, with a particular focus on the restive Western frontier and its Tibetan and Uyghur ethnic minorities.
Richard Madsen is a distinguished professor of sociology, an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Global Policy and Strategy, and the director of the U.C.-Fudan Center for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of books on moral order and religion in the USA, China and Taiwan, including Democracy's Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan and (forthcoming, co-edited with Becky Hsu) The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life.
Scott Moore is a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, where he specializes in climate change and water politics and policy. His most recent book is Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Stephen Noakes is senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Auckland, and the author of The Advocacy Trap: Transnational Activism and State Power in China (Manchester University Press, 2017). Before joining the University of Auckland, he was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, and a visiting research scholar at Fudan University's School of International Relations and Public Affairs. He was NZ-China Fellow at Peking University in 2018, and is the recipient of a Taiwan Foundation grant, which he will take up in July 2019 at National Taiwan University.
Yeyang Su is a PhD candidate in social anthropology at the University of Sussex in the Centre for Bionetworking.
Wenfang Tang is Stanley Hua Hsia professor of political science and international studies at the University of Iowa. He studies public opinion and political culture in contemporary China. His book Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability (Oxford University Press, 2016) won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award.
Ross Terrill is a research associate at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. His latest books are Wo yu Zhongguo (in Chinese, Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 2011) and The New Chinese Empire (UNSW Press, 2003). His biography of Mao in Chinese, 12 years after publication, still sells 100,000 copies per year.
John Watt is a retired China scholar and agency administrator. His most recent publications are Healthcare and National Development in Taiwan, 1950–2000 (ABMAC Foundation, 2008), and Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928–1945 (Brill, 2013).
Angela Huyue Zhang is an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong.
