Philip Andrews-Speed is a senior principal fellow at the Energy Studies Institute of the National University of Singapore and a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
Teresita Ang See is an academician, writer and social activist. She co-founded Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran, a movement working for the full integration of the Chinese-Filipino community. See is also a former President of the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies and currently part of its advisory council.
T. H. Barrett is professor emeritus of East Asian history at SOAS University of London. He has worked mainly on the history of Chinese religion and on the spread of an awareness of China in Britain. With Lawrence Wang-chi Wong he recently edited Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2022).
Gregor Benton is emeritus professor in modern Chinese history at Cardiff University. He has published many books on the Chinese revolution, dissent under the communists, and the Chinese diaspora.
Chris Berry teaches in film studies at King's College London. His most recent book (co-edited with Vivienne Lo and Liping Guo) is Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities (Routledge, 2019).
Miriam Driessen is an anthropologist of China and Ethiopia at the University of Oxford. She works on labour, migration and development. She is the author of Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia (Hong Kong University Press, 2019).
Joshua Eisenman is associate professor of politics in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He also is a fellow of the Keough School's Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and Pulte Institute for Global Development.
Vanessa Frangville is senior lecturer in China studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium, and director of ULB's research centre on East Asia (EASt). Her current research project looks at cultural and artistic expressions of trauma and nostalgia in the Uyghur diaspora since 2017, with a focus on performative and audio-visual arts.
Mark W. Frazier is professor of politics at The New School for Social Research and co-director of the India China Institute at The New School (New York City). His research interests include labour and social policy in China, and the politics of citizenship and urban protest in China and India. He is the author of The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Other publications include Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press, 2010) and The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Kuang-hao Hou is associate professor at the department of ocean and border governance, National Quemoy University, Republic of China. He is the author of State Domination in Modern China (Heidelberg Press, 2012) and The Social Construction of the Ocean and Modern Taiwan (Routledge, 2022).
Chin-Hao Huang is associate professor of political science and head of studies for global affairs at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He specializes in the international relations of East and South-East Asia. His books include Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China Is Changing Taiwan (Bristol University Press, 2021), Power and Restraint in China's Rise (Columbia University Press, 2022) and State Formation through Emulation: The East Asian Model (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
William Jankowiak is professor in the anthropology department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City (Columbia University Press, 1993) with Robert Moore, Life in the Chinese Family (Polity Press, 2016), and three edited books: Romantic Passion (Columbia University Press, 1995) with Dan Bradburd, Drugs, Trade, and Colonial Expansion (University of Arizona Press, 2003), and Intimacies: Between Love and Sex (Columbia University Press 2008). His most recent book is Illicit Monogamy: How Love Undermines Polygamy in a Mormon Fundamentalist Community (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
Daniel Leese is professor of Sinology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Among his most recent publications are Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in Maoist China: A Case-Study Approach (De Gruyter, 2018, with Puck Engman) and Maos langer Schatten. Chinas Umgang mit der Vergangenheit (C. H. Beck, 2020), which was short-listed for the German Non-Fiction Prize and won the ICAS Best Book Award 2021.
Shasha Liu is a PhD candidate in the department of East Asian studies, University of Toronto. Her research attends to the mediation of Dunhuang in the 20th century, focusing on four visual media: photography, painting, animation and film. Her article, “Zooming in on the animated background: mediated Dunhuang murals with design in the conceited general,” has been published in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. She was the recipient of the “Best Student Paper Award” at the Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies (2021).
Sigrid Schmalzer is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Scott E. Simon is professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, Ottawa. He does socio-anthropological research on indigeneity, development and political self-determination in Taiwan.
Hazel Smith is professorial research associate in Korean Studies at SOAS University of London, and professor emerita of international security, Cranfield University, UK. Her most recent publications include North Korea: Markets and Military Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2015), “The ethics of United Nations sanctions on North Korea: effectiveness, necessity and proportionality,” Critical Asian Studies 52 (2), 2020, and “Nutrition and health in North Korea: what's new, what's changed and why it matters,” North Korean Review 12 (1), 2016.
Stephen Smith is a postdoctoral fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Tim Stevens is senior lecturer in global security at the department of war studies, King's College London and director of its Cyber Security Research Group. He is the author of Cyber Security and the Politics of Time (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Patricia M. Thornton is an associate professor of political science at the University of Oxford, and tutor in the politics of China at Merton College.
Qiong Wang is an associate professor of philosophy in the philosophy department at State University of New York, College at Oneonta, USA. Her research focuses on Asian philosophy, particularly Buddhism and Confucianism, and comparative studies.
Torsten Weber is a historian of modern East Asia and a principal researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo. His Embracing “Asia” in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony was published in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series in 2018. He currently researches John Rabe's Nanjing diaries as contested war memory (https://rabediaries.hypotheses.org).
Fei Yan is an associate professor in sociology at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on historical sociology, political sociology, contentious politics and sociology of development.
Qiong Yang is academic editor of literature at the Social Sciences in China Press, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interests are Chinese science fiction and digital literature.
Man-Fung Yip is associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation (Hong Kong University Press, 2017) and co-editor of The Cold War and Asian Cinemas (Routledge, 2020) and American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows (Routledge, 2015). His current research focuses on the cultural Cold War in Asian cinema.
Xiang Zou is a lecturer at the department of medical humanities, Southeast University, China. She has published internationally in the fields of bioethics and anthropology. Her research interests include elderly care, family studies, medical ethics and empirical approach to bioethics.
