RobertBarnett is the director of the modern Tibetan studies programme at Columbia University, New York.
PaulCairney is senior lecturer in the department of politics and international relations, University of Aberdeen.
AdamCathcart is assistant professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. In addition to his ongoing research into war memory and Sino-Japanese relations in the 1950s, he has published multiple articles on Sino-North Korean relations in such outlets as the Journal of Korean Studies.
YinghongCheng is associate professor of history at Delaware State University.
Kuei-fenChiu is professor of Taiwan literature at National Chung-hsing University, Taiwan. She has published on Taiwanese postcolonial literature and contemporary documentary films in Taiwan.
NicoleConstable is professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. She has written numerous articles about migrant domestic workers in Asia and is author of Maid to Order in Hong Kong (Cornell University Press, 1997, 2007).
RichardLouisEdmonds is visiting professor in the Geographical Studies Program and associate member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. His interests focus around historical geography and environmental studies. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996–2002. Dr Edmonds has written extensively on China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. His most recent contribution is China's Embedded Activism: Opportunities and Constraints of a Social Movement (Routledge, 2007), co-edited with Peter Ho.
AntoniaFinnane is a historian of China and professor of history in the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne.
JohnGittings first visited China in 1971 after working in Hong Kong for the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was The Guardian's China editor from 1983 to 2003, and his latest book is The Changing Face of China (Oxford University Press, 2006).
BeataGrant is professor of Chinese and religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her primary research area is women's writing of late imperial China: her most recent publication is Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth Century China (Hawai‘i University Press, 2009).
StevanHarrell is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. He was a student of G. William Skinner from 1966, and received his PhD under Skinner and Arthur Wolf at Stanford University in 1974. His latest book, with Bamo Ayi and Ma Lunzy, is Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America (University of Washington Press, 2007). He is now working on an ecological history of the People's Republic of China.
RowenaXiaoqingHe is a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Her research focuses on political socialization, citizenship education and democratization in China. Her postdoctoral project explores the nature and roots of current student nationalism, particularly as it is manifest among Chinese students of the post-Tiananmen generation studying in North America; Her doctoral dissertation examines the political socialization experiences of three Tiananmen student leaders over two continents before and after Tiananmen.
MargaretHillenbrand is university lecturer in modern Chinese at the University of Oxford.
Brian G. Hook is a visiting professor of China studies at Middlesex University Business School and honorary research fellow in the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. He was Editor of The China Quarterly from 1980 to 1991 and edited both editions of The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of China. His present research foci are the Pan-Pearl River Delta and the response of major British business interests in China since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty over Hong Kong.
ChristopherHowe, FBA, is honorary professor at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield.
PeterKwong is a professor of Asian American studies at Hunter College/City University of New York.
Stefan R. Landsberger holds the Olfert Dapper chair of contemporary Chinese culture at the University of Amsterdam and is associate professor at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University. His latest publication is Chinese Posters: The IISH-Landsberger Collections (Prestel Verlag, 2009), with Marien van der Heijden and Kuiyi Shen.
ChingKwanLee is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her most recent book is Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (University of California Press, 2007).
LiXingxing is senior researcher at the Sichuan Institute for Ethnic Studies, where he has pursued ethnological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic research since 1986. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Analysis of the Zang-Yi Corridor, Ethnographical Research on the Xieluo Tibetans, Expansion and Contact: Essays on Local History and Culture, and Winding Return: The Culture of the Tujia of Xishui, Sichuan.
MingxingLiu is an associate professor at the China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University. He is also affiliated with the China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing.
Roderick F. MacFarquhar is the Leroy B. Williams professor of history and political science at Harvard University. Mao's Last Revolution, co-authored with Michael Schoenhals, has been translated into Chinese, French and Spanish and will appear also in Japanese and Korean.
AndrewMertha is associate professor in the department of government, Cornell University. He is the author of The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China (Cornell University Press, 2005) and China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (Cornell University Press, 2008). His articles have appeared in The China Quarterly, Comparative Politics, International Organization, and Orbis.
DusankaMiscevic is a writer and translator with a PhD degree in Chinese history.
RachelMurphy is university lecturer in the sociology of China at the University of Oxford.
PatriciaNash is an independent researcher in St. Louis, Missouri. She works regularly in archives and state libraries in Beijing and Northeast China, and was awarded a Freeman Foundation ASIANetwork Student–Faculty Research grant in 2007.
Frank N. Pieke is university lecturer in modern politics and society of China and fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford, where he also directs the China Centre. His two most recent books are The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (Stanford University Press, with Pál Nyíri, Mette Thunø and Antonella Ceccagno, 2004)
DavidShambaugh is professor of political science and international affairs, and director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He is also a non-resident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He previously served as editor of The China Quarterly, and was reader in Chinese politics in the University of London (SOAS). He is presently a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. He has published widely on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs, as well as the international relations of Asia and Europe. His most recent books are China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation (University of California Press, 2008) and International Relations of Asia (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).
IanScott is emeritus professor and a fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University. He is also an adjunct professor at the City University of Hong Kong.
JonathanSpence is Sterling professor of history emeritus at Yale University. His books include The Death of Woman Wang, The Question of Hu, Return to Dragon Mountain, and The Search for Modern China. In 2004 he served as President of the American Historical Association.
Julia C. Strauss is senior lecturer in Chinese politics at the department of politics and international studies, SOAS, and editor of The China Quarterly since 2002. She has published widely on state capacity in the 20th-century Chinese state, and is currently working on a book manuscript that compares regime consolidation in China and Taiwan in the 1950s.
RanTao is a professor in the school of economics, Renmin University of China. He is also a research fellow at Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy.
EdwardVickers is reader in education at the Institute of Education, University of London. His research focuses primarily on the relationship between education and political socialization in Chinese societies (the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan). He is currently working on a book on the history of China's education system during the “Reform and Opening” period, and on a study of museums and identity formation in Chinese societies. He is series editor for the new book series, Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia.
JuanWang is a PhD candidate in political science at the Johns Hopkins University.
ZhengxuWang is senior research fellow and research co-ordinator at the China Policy Institute, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. His researches focus on social and political changes in China.
David C. Wilson (Lord Wilson of Tillyorn) was editor of The China Quarterly from 1968–74. He was educated at Oxford; has a PhD in modern Chinese history from SOAS; studied Chinese at the University of Hong Kong; served in the British Embassy in Beijing; and was Governor of Hong Kong from 1987–92. He was Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge from 2002–08 and is Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
DickWilson was a staff writer on the Financial Times before taking The China Quarterly chair, and afterwards was an editorial advisor of the Straits Times group in Singapore. He has written many books on Asian affairs including biographies of Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. His biography of Zhou Enlai was recently translated into Chinese.
ChristineWong teaches at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on China's public finance and public sector reform. Over the past 15 years she has worked extensively in policy advisory capacities, for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, as well as through consultancies for the OECD, UNDP, UNICEF, and the Department for International Development (UK).
XiaogangWu is associate professor of social science in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and research fellow of sociology division, E-Institutes of Shanghai Universities, China. His research interests include social stratification and mobility, labour markets and economic sociology, and statistical methods. He currently studies the impact of Chinese economic reforms on educational stratification, social mobility and stratification dynamics in China since the mid-1990s, and self-employment and private entrepreneurship in China's economic transition.
RodWye is a research analyst at the North Asia and Pacific Research Group of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
GuobinYang is an associate professor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press, 2009).
YukyungYeo is assistant professor in the department of public and social administration at City University, Hong Kong. She studied international relations at Seoul National University, was trained in Beijing Normal University and Tsinghua University, and earned her doctorate in political science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on institutional change, bureaucratic politics, and government–business relations in Chinese Politics.
DuncanYoon is a doctoral student in comparative literature at UCLA. His research interests broadly lie in Sino-African relations, Third World Marxist movements, globalization, national consciousness, and the aesthetics of development.
XiaodanZhang is assistant professor of sociology at York College, City University of New York.
