Sirma Altun is a PhD candidate in the department of political economy at the University of Sydney. She is doing a relational comparative study of world city formation and associated socio-spatial struggles in Hong Kong and Taipei.

Kerry Brown is professor of Chinese studies and director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London.

John P. Burns is emeritus professor of the University of Hong Kong.

Roberto Castillo is an assistant professor at the cultural studies department of Lingnan University. Previously, he was a lecturer at the African studies programme of the University of Hong Kong. Castillo's research deals with China's changing ethnoscapes with a focus on foreign presence in the country. For the last decade, he has been teaching on the emerging field of China–Africa relations and researching African presence in China. He administers the website www.africansinchina.net.

Matthew Ming-tak Chew is an associate professor at the sociology department of Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include social theory, cultural sociology, sociology of consumption, Chinese society and culture, and sociology of knowledge. He has published numerous articles in journals including New Media and Society, Current Sociology, International Sociology and The China Quarterly.

Jérôme Doyon is a departmental lecturer in contemporary Chinese studies at the Oxford School of Area Studies, University of Oxford. He researches Chinese domestic politics, including elite politics, the Party system as well as issues related to religions and minorities.

Weihong Du is an associate professor at Knox College. Her research interests include intercultural exchange, modern Chinese history and Chinese literature.

Timothy Hildebrandt is associate professor of social policy and development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He writes widely on NGO development and is the author of Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He has also published extensively on LGBT activism and policy issues in China and globally.

Johanna Hood is an associate professor in international development studies at the department of social science and business in Roskilde University, Denmark and is currently based in Australia as a Discovery Early Career Research Award recipient. Johanna currently researches the commodification and donation of blood in China, and is interested in issues of public health and political celebrity, welfare, and inequality and disease.

Ellen R. Judd is distinguished professor and professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba. Her ethnographic work in rural and urban China has included studies of gender and kinship, rural livelihood, mobility and migration, land allocation and use, and access to health care, variously in Shandong, Sichuan, Chongqing and Guangdong. She is most recently co-editor of Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice (2018).

Emilian Kavalski is Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in China–Eurasia relations and international studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.

Jakob Klein is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at SOAS University of London and chair of the SOAS Food Studies Centre. His publications include: “Everyday approaches to food safety in Kunming,” The China Quarterly 214 (2013); “Buddhist vegetarian restaurants and the changing meanings of meat in urban China,” Ethnos 82(2) (2017); and “Heritagizing local cheese in China,” Food and Foodways 26(1) (2018).

Meizhen Liao is professor of linguistics of the School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University. His academic interests include forensic linguistics, pragmatics and discourse metaphor. Some of his representative publications include: “Metaphor as a textual strategy in English,” Text, 19(2), 1999; “A study of interruption in Chinese criminal courtroom discourse,” Text & Talk, 29(2), 2009; A Study of Courtroom Questions, Responses and their Interaction, Law Press, Beijing, 2003; “The goal-driven principle and communication,” Journal of Foreign Languages, 2009 (4&6); and “Courtroom discourse in China” in L. Solan and P. Tiersma (eds.) Handbook of Language and Law (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Tim Oakes is director of the Center for Asian Studies and professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Helen Rees is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in folk, ritual and other traditional musics of southwest China and the Shanghai region. Her books include Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China (Oxford University Press, 2000) and the edited volume Lives in Chinese Music (University of Illinois Press, 2009).

Kristin Stapleton teaches history at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and is a member of the Global Urban History Project and the Urban China Research Network. She is the author of Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin's Family (Stanford, 2016), among other works, and serves as editor of Twentieth-Century China.

Dylan Sutherland is an associate professor in management at Durham University Business School.

Rory Truex is assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.

Steve Tsang is professor of Chinese studies and director of the SOAS China Institute, SOAS University of London. He is the author or editor of 18 books, including (with Men Honghua), China in the Xi Jinping Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom teaches Chinese history at UC Irvine. His most recent books are, as co-author, the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2018), and, as editor, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (paperback edition, 2018).

Elizabeth Wishnick is a professor of political science at Montclair State University and a senior research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.