Stephen C. Angle is Mansfield Freeman professor of East Asian studies and professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University. His recent books include Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy: Toward Progressive Confucianism (2012) and, with Justin Tiwald, Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction (2017).
Daniel Asen is assistant professor in the department of history of Rutgers University-Newark.
Hugh D. R. Baker is professor emeritus of Chinese at SOAS University of London. In addition to co-authoring language textbooks of Cantonese and Putonghua he has written widely on the anthropology and history of the Hong Kong New Territories.
Kathlene Baldanza is assistant professor of history and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her book on Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia was published by Cambridge University Press in March 2016.
Jean-Pierre Cabestan is professor of political science and head of department of government and international studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Yongshun Cai teaches in the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Sustaining Decentralized Protest (2016).
John Clark is professor emeritus in Asian art history at the University of Sydney, the author of five books, and editor or co-editor of another five. His Asian Modernities: Chinese and Thai art of the 1980s and 1990s (Power Publications, 2010) won the Best Art Book Prize of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand in 2011. After his Modernities of Chinese Art (Brill, 2010), he published his papers on modern Japanese art as Modernities of Japanese Art (Brill, 2013). He is currently completing the draft of a two-volume study, The Asian Modern, 1850s – 1990s.
Jason Clower gained his PhD from Harvard in 2008. He is an associate professor of religious studies at California State University, Chico, and focuses on modern Chinese Buddhism and New Confucianism.
Brian DeMare teaches history at Tulane University. Author of Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution, he is currently working on a study of China's mid-century land reform campaigns.
Regina Enjuto Martinez is a fellow at the department of international development at LSE, where she gained her PhD in development studies. In her thesis she examined the role of labour laws in sustaining authoritarianism in China, particularly the contradictions between labour laws on the one hand, and workers' subjective experiences of work and their social norms, morality and conceptions of legality, on the other. She conducted 12 months' fieldwork in China with a visiting position at the Law School, Peking University, and associated with three labour NGOs.
Sara Hsu is an assistant professor of economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She earned her PhD from the University of Utah and her BA from Wellesley College. She specializes in Chinese shadow banking, finance and development.
Jue Jiang is an honorary visiting scholar in the Centre for Rights and Justice, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Criminal Reconciliation (xingshi hejie) in Contemporary China: An Empirical and Analytical Enquiry (Edward Elgar, 2016). Her research and recent publications cover criminal reconciliation, wrongful convictions, the death penalty and civil society advocacy in China.
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of social and cultural anthropology at LMU Munich and in the research network “Crossroads Asia.” Her research interests include critical Han studies, the anthropology of infrastructure, place and space, and ethnicity.
Joan Kaufman is the director for academics at Schwarzman Scholars and lecturer in global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her academic training is in both public health and Chinese studies and she has written, taught, researched, consulted and worked on China health and population policy and governance issues for over 35 years in academia, for private foundations and for many development agencies.
Lars Peter Laamann is lecturer in the history of China at SOAS University of London. His PhD thesis dealt with the inculturation of Christianity in China during the 18th century, and he has subsequently worked on popular religion in late imperial and republican China. Other research interests include drugs and medicine in modern China, urban planning and architectural policies, as well as the language, culture and history of the Manchus.
David M. Lampton is professor and director of China studies at Johns Hopkins–SAIS and chairman of the Asia Foundation. His current book-length research project concerns the domestic and international politics of China's railroad infrastructure building efforts in Southeast Asia. His most recent book is Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping (UC Press, 2014).
Joyman Lee holds a PhD in modern Chinese history from Yale University. He has taught as an assistant professor at two US universities, and is affiliated with the City Law School, London.
Marc L. Moskowitz is a professor in the department of anthropology at the University of South Carolina. Focusing on the intersection between gender and popular culture in Chinese-speaking Asia he has written three monographs, edited two volumes, and has directed two ethnographic films.
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.
Pu Wang is assistant professor of Chinese and the Helaine and Alvin Allen chair in literature at Brandeis University. His current book manuscript is about Guo Moruo, translation and the Chinese Revolution.
Chongmin Yang is a postgraduate research sociology student at the University of Edinburgh. Under the supervision of Sophia Woodman, he is currently researching the ways in which Chinese overseas students conceptualize their experiences in international elite universities.
