Jennifer Altehenger is associate professor of Chinese history and Jessica Rawson fellow in Modern Asian history at the University of Oxford and Merton College. She is the author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China (2018) and has also published on the history of propaganda, lexicography, and on China's links to other socialist countries. Funded by the AHRC and the British Academy, her current work examines the history of materials and everyday industrial design in the PRC.
Susanne Bregnbæk is an anthropologist and associate professor at University College Copenhagen in Denmark. Her book Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China's Top University Students (Stanford University Press, 2016) described the existential and political quandaries of Chinese elite university students. Furthermore, she has published books and articles on higher education, religion, family, and state-citizen relationships in China. Currently, she is working on refugee families, transformative experience and the welfare state in Denmark.
Chen Jian is Distinguished Global Network professor of history at NYU-Shanghai and NYU, and Hu Shih professor of history emeritus at Cornell University. He is completing a major biography of Zhou Enlai.
Reed H. Chervin is a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado's Center for Asian Studies. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on the Sino-Indian border conflict from 1950 to 1970. He can be found on Twitter @ReederAvid.
James Flath is professor of history at Western University, Canada.
Zhipeng Gao is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of sociology and anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. He studies the history of the human sciences in socialist China, contemporary Chinese experience of sociocultural conflicts, and Chinese immigrants’ transnational identities. His select publications can be found in Social Anthropology, History of Psychology, History of Science, History of Education, Review of General Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Narrative Inquiry, Chinese Sociological Dialogue, Mental Health in China, The Chinese Diaspora in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (forthcoming with Springer) and The Making of the Human Sciences in China: Historical and Conceptual Foundations (Brill, 2019).
Peter Gries is the Lee Kai Hung Chair and founding director of the Manchester China Institute, and professor of Chinese politics at the University of Manchester. He studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on China and the US.
Derek Hird is senior lecturer in Chinese studies at Lancaster University and deputy director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute. His research interests include masculinities and well-being in Chinese populations. He is co-editor of the Transnational Asian Masculinities book series (Hong Kong University Press).
Christopher Howe is emeritus professor of Chinese business management at SOAS University of London.
Agnes Shuk-mei Ku is associate professor of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is also affiliated with the Centre for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. Her research interests include cultural sociology, civil society, citizenship, urban space and Hong Kong identity.
Limin Liang is an assistant professor at the department of media and communication, City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include the social organization and cultural studies of journalism and new media as well as international communication.
Stephen Noakes is senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Auckland and is currently engaged in pair of book projects. The first is a cross-national comparative study of China's development assistance in the Pacific Islands. The second (co-authored with Dr Chris Wilson) examines challenges to liberal democracy in the 21st century, including the rise and resilience of competitive authoritarian regimes, terrorist/guerrilla insurgencies and far-right populist movements.
Yvan Schulz received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Neuchâtel in 2018. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford from 2017 to 2019 and taught at the University of Fribourg in 2020.
Jessica C. Teets is an associate professor in the political science department at Middlebury College, the president of the Association of Chinese Studies, and associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Political Science. Her research focuses on governance in authoritarian regimes, especially sources of change such as local policy experimentation and civil society. She is the author of Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and editor (with William Hurst) of Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (Routledge, 2014), in addition to articles published in The China Quarterly, World Politics, Governance, and the Journal of Contemporary China. Dr Teets is a fellow with the Public Intellectuals Program created by the National Committee on United States–China Relations (NCUSCR) and is currently researching changing local governance under Xi Jinping.
Rory Truex is an assistant professor in Princeton's department of politics and School of Public and International Affairs. His research focuses on Chinese politics and theories of authoritarian rule. His book Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China (Cambridge University Press, 2016) investigates the nature of representation in authoritarian systems, specifically the politics surrounding China's National People's Congress. He is currently working on a new set of projects on repression, human rights and dissent in contemporary China.
Andrew Wedeman is a professor of political science and the director of China Studies at Georgia State University. He is the author of Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China (Cornell University Press, 2012) and From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
