Björn Ahl is associate professor of Chinese legal culture in the Chinese studies department of Cologne University, Germany. His research focuses on Chinese public law, Chinese positions on public international law, legal culture and legal transplants.
Björn Alpermann is professor of contemporary Chinese studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. His publications include The Chinese Cotton Industry: Economic Transition and State Capacity (2010), Politics and Markets in Rural China (editor, 2011) and The Political Economy of Agro-Food Markets in China: The Social Construction of the Markets in an Era of Globalization (co-editor with Louis Augustin-Jean, 2014).
Jean-Philippe Béja is a senior researcher at CNRS, CEFC now based in Beijing. He has published extensively on state–society relations, and on the dissident movement.
Chris King-Chi Chan teaches sociology at the City University of Hong Kong. He has published widely in the area of Chinese labour, including the book The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories (Routledge, 2010) and articles in various journals.
Bruce J. Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. His research concentrates on the Chinese Communist Party and its relations with society. His most recent books are Wealth into Power: The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and (with Jie Chen) Allies of the State: China's Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change (Harvard University Press, 2010).
Richard S. Eckaus is the Ford Foundation professor of international economics, emeritus at the department of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has specialized in the economic problems of developing countries, where he has worked extensively.
Harriet Evans is coordinator of Asia studies research at the Centre of Democracy Studies, University of Westminster. Her publications include Women and Sexuality in China: Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender since 1949 (Polity Press, 1997), Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (co-edited with Stephanie Donald, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999) and The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).
Brian C. H. Fong is assistant professor in the department of Asian and policy studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education. He specializes in public governance and legislative studies. He is the author of Hong Kong's Governance under Chinese Sovereignty: The Failure of the State–Business Governing Coalition after 1997 (Routledge, forthcoming 2014).
Paul H. B. Godwin retired as professor of international affairs at the US National War College. He is co-author with Alice Miller of China's Forbearance Has Its Limits: Chinese Threat and Retaliation Signaling and Its Implications for a Sino-American Military Confrontation (2013).
Gilles Guiheux, a sociologist, is professor of Chinese studies at the Université Paris Diderot (Paris). His research has been focused on entrepreneurs in Taiwan and on the Mainland. His current project centres on the subjectivity of labour and how individuals relate to work in Chinese society.
Enze Han is currently a lecturer in the department of politics and international studies, SOAS, University of London. His research interests include ethnic politics in China and China's international relations, particularly with Southeast Asia.
Derek Hird is lecturer in Chinese in the department of modern languages and cultures and a researcher at the Contemporary China Centre at the University of Westminster. His research interests focus on Chinese masculinities in and beyond China and their intersections with class, sexuality, ethnicity, health and violence. He is co-author of Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China (Brill, 2013) and co-founder of the Queer China Working Group.
Elaine Sio-Ieng Hui is a PhD candidate at the University of Kassel, Germany, and she has been awarded a Heinrich Böll Stiftung scholarship to study how the Chinese state builds up hegemony through the labour laws system. She has published a number of articles on labour issues in China.
Jakob A. Klein is lecturer in social anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and deputy chair of the SOAS Food Studies Centre. His publications include “Everyday Approaches to Food Safety in Kunming,” The China Quarterly, No. 214 (2013) and, co-edited with Yuson Jung and Melissa L. Caldwell, Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World (forthcoming, University of California Press).
Pei-chia Lan gained her PhD from the department of sociology, Northwestern University, in 2000. She is professor of sociology at National Taiwan University. Her fields of specialty include gender, work and migration. She is the author of Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke University Press, 2006).
Marc Lanteigne is a senior lecturer with the department of political science and international relations and research director at the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of China and International Institutions, Alternate Paths to Global Powerand Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction, as well as articles on Chinese and Asia-Pacific international relations.
Shi Li is professor of economics in the School of Economics and Business and acting director of the China Institute for Income Inequality Studies at Beijing Normal University. His research interests include income and wage inequality, poverty, wealth distribution, labour market regulations and rural–urban migration in China. His recent publications include Rising Inequality in China: Challenges to a Harmonious Society (2013), co-edited with Hiroshi Sato and Terry Sicular.
Lin Chun teaches at LSE and is the author, most recently, of China and Global Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Gordon Mathews teaches in the department of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He wrote Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions Hong Kong (2011), among other books.
Kathryn Mohrman is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, where she also directs the University Design Consortium, a joint project with Sichuan University. Past experiences include president of Colorado College USA, executive director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and Fulbright scholar in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea.
Michelle S. Mood is an assistant professor of political science and Asian studies at Kenyon College in Ohio and writes on the political implications of China's rural economic reforms.
Nele Noesselt is a research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Leibniz, Germany.
Lynette H. Ong is associate professor in the department of political science, and Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China (Cornell University Press, 2012). Her publications have appeared in Comparative Politics, The China Quarterly, International Political Science Review, Foreign Affairs, Journal of East Asian Studies, Asian Survey and Pacific Affairs.
Christopher Paik is currently an assistant professor of social sciences at New York University, Abu Dhabi. His research interests include long-run determinants of economic growth, sources of enduring cultural differences, and the application of geo-spatial information and statistics to the study of politics and economics.
Judy Polumbaum is a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA. She has followed Chinese media developments for the past 35 years.
Jeffrey Reeves is an associate professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA.
Paul S. Ropp is research professor of history at Clark University. A specialist in Ming-Qing cultural history, he is the author, most recently, of China in World History (Oxford, 2010).
Terry Sicular is professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario. Her current research interests focus on topics related to income distribution, poverty, and household savings in China. Her recent publications include Rising Inequality in China: Challenges to a Harmonious Society (2013), co-edited with Shi Li and Hiroshi Sato.
Kin-Yan Szeto is associate professor of theatre and dance at Appalachian State University and serves on the executive board for the Congress on Research in Dance. Szeto has published widely in scholarly journals such as Visual Anthropology, Dance Chronicle, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and Jump Cut, and is the author of The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011).
Ian Taylor is professor in international relations and African politics at St Andrews and also chair professor in the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. He is also an honorary professor at the Institute of African Studies, China, and has conducted in-depth research on Sino-African relations since 1994.
Jinba Tenzin is a research fellow in the agrarian studies program of Yale University (2013–2014). His research agendas cover state–society relations, collective resistance, grassroots associations, gender politics, history and memory, and border politics and identity, as well as Sino-Tibetan borderlands in transition.
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.
Edward Vickers is associate professor of comparative education at Kyushu University, Japan. His recent work includes an edited volume, Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia (Routledge 2013), and a special issue of the journal Chinese Perspectives on “Official Chinese visions of Japan.”
Gerda Wielander is principal lecturer in Chinese studies and acting head of the department of modern languages and cultures at the University of Westminster, London. She is the author of Christian Values in Communist China (Routledge, 2013).
R. Bin Wong is distinguished professor of history and director of the Asia Institute at UCLA and a distinguished guest professor at Fudan University Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences. His most recent book, Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe (Harvard University Press, 2011) is co-authored with Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
Miao Yun is doing her PhD in anthropology and sociology at SOAS, University of London. She has worked as independent NGO project consultant, researcher, journalist and writer. Her current research focuses on tourism-led development and the transformation of Tibetan identity in Shangri-la, Yunnan, China.
Peter Zarrow is professor of history at the University of Connecticut. His work focuses on intellectual and cultural history of the late Qing and Republic, and he is completing a monograph on the history of textbooks in modern China.
