Edmund W. Cheng is an associate professor of the department of public policy at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include contentious politics, political sociology, public opinion, mixed methods, Hong Kong politics and Global China.
Richard Cullen is visiting professor in the Faculty of Law at Hong Kong University. He has spent over 25 years based in Hong Kong since he first arrived to teach in the new Law School at the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong in late 1991. He was a professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia until 2006. He has written over 200 books, articles, notes and commentaries. He wrote No Third Person (Abbreviated Press, 2018) with Christine Loh, which examines the rewriting of the Hong Kong story. His latest book is Hong Kong Constitutionalism: The British Legacy and the Chinese Future (Routledge, 2020).
Joshua Fan is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso. He specializes in the history of modern China, with a particular interest in the history of ordinary men and women during the Chinese civil war. His first book, China's Homeless Generation: Voices from the Veterans of the Chinese Civil War, 1940s–1990s was published by Routledge Press in 2010 in hardcover and reissued in paperback in 2015.
Qiliang He is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly books, including Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China: 1917 As a Significant Year of Journalism (2019), Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949 (Brill, 2012).
Kyle A. Jaros is associate professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs, where his research focuses on China's central–local politics, political economy and urban governance. He is the author of China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development (Princeton University Press, 2019).
Sitao Li is a PhD student in the department of sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests include Chinese criminal courts, penal history and prison re-entry.
Perry Link is professor emeritus of East Asian studies at Princeton University and chancellorial chair for teaching across disciplines at the University of California, Riverside.
Janet C. Sturgeon is an adjunct professor at Simon Frazier University. Her work has explored cross-border dynamics for ethnic minority peoples between China and neighbouring Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, one of the lingua franca in these borderlands.
Xin Sun is senior lecturer in Chinese and East Asian business at King's College London. His research focuses on land politics, governance and government–business relations in China.
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.
Andrew Wedeman is a professor of political science at Georgia State University. He is the author of Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China (Cornell University Press, 2012). He is currently working on a book analysing Xi Jinping's anti-corruption crackdown entitled Hunting Tigers and Swatting Flies: Xi Jinping's Battle with Corruption.
