Timothy Cheek is director of the Institute of Asian Research and professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History at the University of British Columbia. His research, teaching and translating focus on the recent history of China, especially the Chinese Communist Party and intellectual debate in China.
Mobo Gao is chair of Chinese studies at the department of Asian studies of the University of Adelaide. His research interest includes studies of rural China, contemporary Chinese politics and culture, Chinese migration to Australia and Chinese language. Professor Gao's publications include a study of the village where he was born and brought up, Gao Village: A Portrait of Rural Life in Modern China, and its sequel Gao Village Revisited: Life of Rural People in Contemporary China, and his books of critical assessments of the field The Battle of China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution, Remembering Socialist China 1949–1976 and Constructing China: Clashing Views of the People's Republic.
Thomas R. Gottschang is professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. His research focuses on the economic history of modern China.
Rachel Harris is professor of ethnomusicology and director of research for the School of Arts at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on religious and expressive culture among the Uyghurs, and cultural policy in China. Her new monograph Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam is forthcoming with Indiana University Press, and an edited volume Ethnographies of Islam in China is forthcoming with Hawai‘i University Press. She currently leads a British Academy Sustainable Development Grant working with Uyghur diaspora communities in Kazakhstan.
Ros Holmes is presidential academic fellow in the history of Chinese art at the University of Manchester. She specializes in modern and contemporary art and online visual culture. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled The Art of Incivility: Rudeness and Representation in Contemporary China.
Christopher Howe is emeritus professor of Chinese business management at SOAS University of London.
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).
Malte Kaeding is lecturer in international politics in the department of politics, University of Surrey. His research area covers international politics and includes topics such as identity and social movements, elections and democratization with a regional focus on East Asia and particularly China, Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Andrew B. Kennedy is associate professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is the author of The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and The Conflicted Superpower: America's Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation (Columbia University Press, 2018).
Anna Kuteleva is currently based at the School of International Regional Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow as a post-doctoral research fellow. Anna received her doctoral degree in political science from the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2019. Her research is located in a broad constructivist tradition of IR and focuses on the nexus between politics and sociocultural contexts in international relations. Her PhD dissertation explored this nexus by drawing on the development of bilateral energy relations between China and oil-rich countries, Canada, Kazakhstan and Russia.
Wing-Fai Leung is lecturer in culture, media and creative industries at King's College London. She researches Chinese language films and media, gender, intersectionality, sexualities and cultural and creative labour. Her work has been published in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, International Journal of Cultural Studies; Information, Communication and Society and The Sociological Review. Her monographs and co-edited volumes include Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality: An East Asian Perspective (2018), Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong: Image, Performance and Identity (2014), East Asian Film Stars (2014) and East Asian Cinemas (2008).
Lorenz Lüthi is an associate professor for the history of international relations at the department of history and classical studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
James Mulvenon is the Director of Intelligence Integration in SOS International's Intelligence Solutions Group. He is the author of Soldiers of Fortune (M.E. Sharpe) and co-author of Chinese Industrial Espionage (Routledge).
Charles D. Musgrove is the author of China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) which investigates the construction of Nanjing as the “model capital” of China under Nationalist Party (KMT) rule. He currently researches the history of architecture, public space, and the emergence of democracy in Taiwan.
Yu Qiu is currently a lecturer in social anthropology at Minzu University of China, and a China–Africa peace fellow of the Social Science Research Council of the US. Her research interests include: ethics across borders; marriage, immigration and law; emotional, effective and intimate dimensions of China–Africa interactions. She conducts fieldwork mainly in China, Nigeria and Tanzania. Her latest publication is “Chinese are Coming: Social dependence, entrepreneur ethics and the arrival of Chinese people in a post-colonial Nigeria” in Yellow Perils: Contemporary China Narratives, edited by F. Billé and S. Urbansky (University of Hawai‘i Press).
Yang Shen is an assistant professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She got her PhD degree in gender studies at the London School of Economics. Her research interests lie in gender studies, qualitative research methods, contemporary China and migration studies. Her current research projects include women's reproductive choices, housing and intimacy and online dating in China. She is author of Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration and the Service Sector in China (Palgrave, 2019), and of articles published in Journal of Family Issues, The China Quarterly and Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies.
Brenton Sullivan is assistant professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Colgate University in Central New York. His research is focused on the history of monastic institutions in Tibet and the history of Sino-Tibetan relations. His forthcoming book is entitled Building a Religious Empire: Buddhist, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa.
Jonathan Sullivan is the director of China Policy Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham.
T. G. Suresh is an associate professor in the Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. At present he is a Fulbright–Nehru Fellow at South Asia Program, Cornell University. He has published book chapters and journal articles on labour and state absenteeism in India and China, labour regimes in construction industries in China and India, labour in global production networks and India's labour reforms. In 2008, he received the Asia Fellow award by the Asian Scholarship Foundation to conduct research on the development experience of Sichuan province.
Pu Wang is associate professor of Chinese literature and culture at Brandeis University and the author of The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Rui Zhang is a PhD candidate in the department of history of Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on labour protection in 20th-century China.
