Pallavi Aiyar is the author of Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China (Harper Collins [India], 2008). A Chinese speaker, she spent more than six years in Beijing as a foreign correspondent. She recently moved to Brussels as Europe correspondent for the Business Standard.
Daniel H. Bays is professor of history and director of the Asian studies program at Calvin College. He has published widely on the history of Christianity in China and is presently at work on a book interpreting that history from the Tang Dynasty to the present.
Kerry Brown is senior fellow on the Asia programme, Chatham House, and research associate at the international relations school, SOAS. He is currently working on a biography of Hu Jintao.
Cosima Bruno is Mellon lecturer in China studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Her main research interests include contemporary Chinese poetry, poetry performativity and the theoretical and practical issues related to its translation; Chinese visual and abstract poetry; bilingual migrant poetry; modern and contemporary Chinese literature.
Xiaomei Chen is professor of Chinese literature in the department of East Asian languages and literatures at the UC Davis. She is the author of Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995), Acting the Right Part (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002), and editor of Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003), and Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (forthcoming, 2010).
Jin Di is a PhD student in sociology department at University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Louise Edwards is professor of modern China studies at the University of Hong Kong. Her most recent book is Gender, Politics and Democracy: Women's Suffrage in China (Stanford University Press, 2008) and a forthcoming edited volume with Mina Roces titled Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism (Routledge, 2010).
Peter Hays Gries is the Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair and director of the Institute for US–China Issues at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of China's New Nationalism (University of California Press, 2005), co-editor of State and Society in 21st-Century China (Routledge, 2004) and Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market (Routledge, 2010), and has written over two dozen academic journal articles and book chapters. His work focuses on nationalism, the political psychology of US–China relations, and China's domestic politics and foreign policy.
Donglin Han has recently completed his PhD in social science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is now a post-doctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Programme.
Ho-fung Hung is assistant professor of sociology and senior associate of the research centre for Chinese business and politics at Indiana University–Bloomington. He is the editor of China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and Protest with Confucian Characteristics: Modernity and Popular Politics in Mid-Qing China (forthcoming).
Chang-tai Hung is chair professor of humanities in the division of humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, specializing in modern Chinese cultural history. His new book Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic will be published by Cornell University Press.
Harlan Jencks is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
Andrew Kipnis is a senior fellow in anthropology and political and social change in the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. He is author of Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village (Duke University Press, 1997), China and Postsocialist Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society after Communism (EastBridge, 2008), and Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics and Schooling in China (Chicago, forthcoming). He is also co-editor of The China Journal.
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, identity, citizenship, urban space and Hong Kong studies.
Marc Lanteigne is a lecturer at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK. His research examines Beijing's regional and global institutional relations. He is the author of China and International Institutions: Alternate Paths to Global Power (Routledge, 2005) and Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction (Routledge, 2009) as well as several articles on Chinese and Asian politics and security issues.
Shanfeng Li is chair of the Sociology Institute at the Shandong Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author of four books including The Process of Urbanization in Shandong (Shandong sheng chengshihua jincheng) and A Study of Liang Shuming's Conception of Social Development (Liang Shuming shehui gaizao gouxiang yanjiu). He also teaches classes in sociology at Shandong University and Jinan University.
Daniel Leese is assistant professor of Sinology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. His is editor of Brill's Encyclopaedia of China.
Fen Lin is an assistant professor of media and communication at City University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in sociology from University of Chicago. Her current research focuses on the dynamics between political communication and social change, and how the state–society relationship affects the process of professionalization in Chinese media industry.
Philip Hsiaopong Liu is an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago and is currently working on US–Taiwan–Africa relations during the 1960s.
Barbara Mittler is director at the Institute of Chinese Studies in Heidelberg. Her monographs and research interests range from contemporary Chinese music in (greater) China to Chinese print media between the 19th and 21st century and Chinese propaganda culture.
Zhongmei Lü is law professor and president of Hubei University of Economics at Wuhan, China. Before that, she was vice-president of the Hubei Provincial Court. Lü has written extensively on environmental rights, environmental public litigation, and environmental dispute resolutions. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including election as one of China's ten “Outstanding Young Jurists” in 2002. She is currently principle investigator of a national key research project on China's environmental dispute resolution mechanisms.
Leonard Ortolano is UPS Foundation professor of civil engineering at Stanford University. He is a specialist in environmental and water resources planning, with a focus on the implementation of environmental policies and programmes in the United States and several other countries, including China. He and his students have engaged in research activities related to a variety of environmental issues in China for over two decades.
Rowan Pease is a lecturer in music at Roehampton University and senior teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her research focuses on Korean music within China.
Randall Peerenboom is professor of law at La Trobe University and associate fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Edward R. Slack, Jr. is associate professor at Eastern Washington University. He has published works on opium in Republican China, and more recently on Asian migration to the Americas during the Spanish colonial era.
Daniela Stockmann is assistant professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She received an MA in Chinese studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include Chinese politics, political communication and public opinion research, and comparative politics of developing and transitional states. Her book manuscript, tentatively titled Propaganda for Sale, examines the impact of media commercialization on news content and public opinion in China.
Lyman P. Van Slyke is a retired professor of Chinese history at Stanford University (1963–1997). He has researched and published extensively on the Chinese revolution and US–China relations during the 1930s and 1940s. He became acquainted with Jack and Caroline Service in the 1960s.
Ross Terrill of the Fairbank Center at Harvard is the author of Mao: A Biography (Harper and Row, 1980), The New Chinese Empire and What It Means for the United States (Basic Books, 2003) and Madame Mao, the White-Boned Demon: A Biography of Madame Mao (Morrow, 1984).
Patricia M. Thornton is a university lecturer in the politics of China at the University of Oxford, and a tutorial fellow at Merton College.
Rod Wye is a research analyst at the North Asia and Pacific Research Group of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
Xiaowei Zang is professor of Chinese studies and head of the school of East Asian studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include Muslim groups in China, Chinese politics, social networks and inequality in China.
Zhang Jie is professor of sociology at State University of New York College at Buffalo in the US. His research in the past decade focused on the risk factors for the Chinese rural young women's suicide, with financial support from US NIMH. His articles have appeared in such top journals as American Journal of Psychiatry, Social Forces, and Psychological Medicine. Dr Zhang's strain theory of suicide is becoming accepted by researchers especially those studying Chinese suicide risk factors. Dr Zhang is also the founding director of the Center for China Studies that has been serving Buffalo State campus and the local community in the past ten years.
Xuehua Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. She received her PhD from Stanford's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) with a focus on environmental law, institutions and economics. Xuehua Zhang has done extensive research on Chinese environmental law and policy formulation, as well as enforcement and compliance with environmental requirements. Her recent research has examined the role of Chinese courts and citizens in local environmental enforcement and compliance.
David Zweig is chair professor, division of social science, and director, Center on China's Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His most recent books include Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages (Cornell University Press, 2002), and Globalization and China's Reforms, edited with Chen Zhimin (Routledge, 2007).
