Mimi Ajibadé is a researcher and facilitator at the Centre for East Asian Law, School of Oriental and African Studies. Her research interests are Chinese law and legal systems, African law and international relations focusing on Africa–China relations.

Chris Berry is professor of film studies at King's College London. His academic research is grounded in work on Chinese cinema and other Chinese screen-based media, as well as neighbouring countries. Primary publications include: (with Mary Farquhar) Cinema and the National: China on Screen (Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006); Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (Routledge, 2004); Public Space, Media Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); and (edited with Lu Xinyu and Lisa Rofel), The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record (Hong Kong University Press, 2010).

Anne-Marie Brady is a professor in political science at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the author of nine books and over 40 scholarly essays on Chinese domestic and foreign policy, as well as on polar politics.

Francesca Bray is professor of social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and works on the history of science, technology and medicine in China. Recent publications include Gender, Technology and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered and Rice: Global Networks and New Histories.

Chris King-Chi Chan is associate professor in the department of sociology of City university of Hong Kong. His research focuses on labour, civil society and social development, especially in Mainland China.

Jae Ho Chung is a professor of political science and international relations and director of the Program on US–China Relations (SNU-Asia Center) at Seoul National University, Korea.

Gene Cooper is professor of anthropology and East Asian studies at the University of Southern California. His published works include The Woodcarvers of Hong Kong: Craft Production in the World Capitalist Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 1980); The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China (M.E. Sharpe, 1998); Adventures in Chinese Bureaucracy (Nova Science, 2000), and most recently The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China: Red Fire (Routledge, 2012).

Bruce Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs and director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University.

John A. Donaldson, associate professor of political science at Singapore Management University, researches poverty reduction and economic growth in China, the transformation of China's agrarian system and central–provincial relations in China.

Reinhard Drifte is emeritus professor of Newcastle University (UK). Since his retirement he has been visiting professor at various Japanese and French universities. His subject area is Japanese foreign policy, focusing currently on various aspects of Japan–China relations, including disputes in the East China Sea and the growing Chinese presence in Japan. Book publications include Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989 (Routledge, 2002), Japan's Quest for a Permanent Security Council Seat. A Matter of Pride or Justice? (Macmillan, 1999) and Japan's Foreign Policy in the 1990s: From Economic Superpower to What Power? (Macmillan, 1998 and 1996).

Géraldine Fiss is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Southern California. Her research investigates instances of trans-cultural practice and modernist innovation in Chinese fiction, poetry and aesthetic thought from the late Qing period to the present. She relates her study of Chinese contemporary poetry to problems of translation and modernization, as well as the nexus of cross-cultural forces that continue to inform cultural production in China.

Caylan Ford is an independent researcher and human rights consultant based in Ottawa, Canada.

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

Courtney J. Fung is an assistant professor of international relations in the department of politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong.

Jie Gao is assistant professor of the department of political science, National University of Singapore. Her current research focuses on cadre evaluation and performance management in Chinese local government, such as the political function of the target-based performance measurement system, gaming in performance measurement, citizen participation in government performance evaluation, and the use of performance information in local policy making.

Mobo Gao is professor of Chinese studies at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include rural China, contemporary Chinese politics and culture, Chinese migration to Australia and Chinese language. One of his books, the critically acclaimed Gao Village, is a case study of the village that he came from. His latest book The Battle of China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution is a reassessment of the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution.

Bruce Gilley is associate professor of political science and director of graduate programmes in public policy at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University.

Jude Howell is professor of international development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

Albert G. Hu is an associate professor of economics at the National University of Singapore. His main research interests include technological change, economic growth and development, and Chinese economy. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as China Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Research Policy and Review of Economics and Statistics.

Tina Phillips Johnson is associate professor of history and director of Chinese studies at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania; and research associate at the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center. Her current research is on the history of reproductive health in 20th-century China, and she also does applied public health work on maternal and child health and rural medicine in China.

Katrin Kinzelbach is associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), an independent think-tank in Berlin. She is also visiting professor at the School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest. Her research focuses on international human rights diplomacy, with a particular focus on China.

Xuan Li is a PhD candidate in the department of psychology, University of Cambridge, and a research associate at the German Youth Institute (Deutsches Jugendinstitut, Munich, Germany). Her work has been focusing on fatherhood and parent–child interactions in contemporary Chinese families, but she is also interested in child and youth development, family research and gender relations in Chinese societies.

Muhua Lin is associate professor of the School of Public Management of Guangdong Finance and Economy University. Her research interests lie in public budgeting, legal studies, and Chinese politics.

Peter Lorentzen is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the political economy of authoritarian rule and the logic of state-society relations.

Kam Louie is adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has published 18 books on various aspects of Chinese culture, including most recently Changing Chinese Masculinities: from Imperial Pillars of State to Global Real Men (ed.) (Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming) and Chinese Masculinities in a Globalising World (Routledge, 2015).

Jun Ma is professor and director of the School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests lie in state building, public budgeting, administrative and fiscal history, and fiscal sociology.

Stephen Noakes is lecturer in Chinese politics and foreign policy at the University of Auckland.

Christopher N. Payne teaches Chinese studies at the University of Manchester. His main research focus is on cultural production from the PRC and the larger Sinosphere.

Judy Polumbaum is professor emerita of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa, USA.

Lisa Rofel is professor of anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism, and Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality and Public Culture.

David Ryfe is professor and director in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. He has published widely in the areas of presidential communication, political communication, and the history and sociology of news. His last book, Can Journalism Survive? An Inside Look in American Newsrooms (Polity, 2012), assesses the on-going disruption in American journalism and how newspaper newsrooms have responded. His current research project is titled “Journalism and the Public,” and includes a comparative chapter on the role of Chinese public life in shaping Chinese journalism.

Suzanne Scoggins is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Her research focuses on ground-level policing and local state control in China.

Qiuqing Tai is a PhD candidate in political science at Yale University, and an associate researcher at the Center for China and Globalizations in Beijing. Her research interests include political economy of development, international migration policies, Chinese political and economic development, and media and public opinions. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Political Communication, The China Quarterly, the Journal of East Asian Studies, Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, and edited volumes.

Beibei Tang is a post-doctoral fellow in the department of political and social change at the Australian National University. Her recent research focuses on grassroots governance and citizen participation in China, with a particular focus on governance mechanisms under China's urbanization. She has published her work in Journal of Contemporary China and China Journal.

Xiaobing Tang is Helmut F. Stern professor of modern Chinese studies and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. His latest publication is Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Rory Truex is an assistant professor in Princeton's department of politics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His research on Chinese politics has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Phoenix Magazine, and published in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and World Development.

Sebastian Veg is a research professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's professor of history at UC Irvine and editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. His books include, as author, Global Shanghai, 1850–2010 (2009) and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010 and 2013), and, as co-editor, Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (1992 and 1994) and Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities (2002).

John Kojiro Yasuda is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Contemporary China.

Lin Zhu is an assistant professor in the division of political science at the Sun Yat-sen University. Her current research interests include corruption and anti-corruption in China, as well as social movements and collective action.