T. H. Barrett is professor of East Asian history at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of a number of studies of the history of Chinese religion and of Western writing on China, most recently The Woman Who Discovered Printing (Yale University Press, 2008).
Marc Blecher is professor of politics and East Asian studies at Oberlin College, USA. His most recent book is China against the Tides, third edition (2010). His article “When Walmart Wimped Out” appeared in Critical Asian Studies in 2008. He focuses on labour politics, and published “Globalization, Structural Reform, and Labour Politics in China” in the Global Labour Journal in 2010.
Kerry Brown is professor and director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. His Contemporary China (Palgrave Macmillan) is published in March 2013.
Jean-Pierre Cabestan is professor of political science and head of department at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Shun-hing Chan is an associate professor of religion and philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research focuses on the sociology of religion, church–state relations, religion and social movements, and religions in Hong Kong and mainland China. He is editor and author of A Carnival of Gods: Studies of Religions in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2002) and, with Beatrice Leung, Changing Church and State Relations in Hong Kong, 1950–2000 (Hong Kong University Press, 2003).
Gary Chen Guangli was involved in this study as his final year dissertation project for his bachelor degree at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China between 2009 and 2010. Then he moved on for a master degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Now he works for the British Consulate-General in Shanghai.
Erica Downs is a fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution.
Howard Chiang is assistant professor of Modern Chinese history at the University of Warwick, UK. He received his PhD in history at Princeton University. He is the editor of Transgender China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Eun Kyong Choi is associate professor in the department of political science at Ajou University in Korea. Her research areas include politics of revenue extraction, private business development, and elite politics. Her work has been published in The China Journal, Issues & Studies and China Review.
Dong Guoqiang is professor of history at Nanjing University, and adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. His publications on the political history of contemporary China have appeared in The China Quarterly, the Journal of Asian Studies, the China Journal, the Journal of Cold War Studies, and many Chinese-language publications. His current research project is about the campaign against leprosy during the Mao era.
Richard Louis Edmonds is visiting professor in the geographical studies programme of the University of Chicago and a lecturer in Johns Hopkins University's undergraduate programme in Nanjing. His interests focus around environmental studies and historical geography. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996–2002. Dr Edmonds has written extensively on China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. He is the author of Macau (World Bibliographical Series, Oxford: Clio Press, 1989) and Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection (1994) and has edited or co-edited: Reappraising Republican China (2000), Managing The Chinese Environment (2000), The People's Republic of China After 50 Years (2000), Taiwan in the Twentieth Century: A Retrospective View (2001), and China's Embedded Activism (2007).
Louise Edwards is professor of modern China studies at the University of Hong Kong. Her recent publications include Gender, Politics and Democracy: Women's Suffrage in China (Stanford UP 2008), Celebrity in China (Hong Kong University Press 2010, edited with Elaine Jeffreys) and a series of edited volumes with Mina Roces including Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism (Routledge 2010) and The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas (Sussex Academic, 2007). She has been elected a fellow of three learned academies: the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.
Benjamin Elman is Gordon Wu’58 professor of Chinese studies, professor of East Asian studies and history, and chair of the department of East Asian studies at Princeton University. He works at the intersection of several fields including history, philosophy, literature, religion, economics, politics and science. His on-going interest is in rethinking how the history of East Asia has been told in the West as well as in China, Japan and Korea. Elman's recent books include Classicism, Examinations, and Cultural History (2010); A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (2009); and a textbook for world history, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (2008).
Gregory P. Fairbrother is associate professor in the department of social sciences at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is currently engaged in several concurrent projects in the area of citizenship education in China and Hong Kong. One of these explores the idea of how the Chinese state develops and promotes its legitimacy claims by “demonstrating paternalism” in citizenship education. Another project explores how the Chinese state's paternalism-demonstration efforts in citizenship education are becoming increasingly rationalized.
Doug Guthrie is dean of the School of Business at the George Washington University. His research focuses on the economic reforms in China, leadership and corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. His most recent book is China and Globalization: The Economic, Political, and Social Transformation of Chinese Society (Routledge, 2012).
Chunping Han is assistant professor of sociology in the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her areas of research include inequality and stratification, subjective well-being, and social change in China. She participated in the China Inequality and Distributive Justice Project, the first nationally representative sample survey specifically designed to deal with popular perceptions of inequality and distributive justice issues in contemporary China.
Ming-sho Ho is professor in the department of sociology at National Taiwan University. He researches Taiwan's social movements and their relation to democratization, with special attention to labour, environment, education and community issues. He is currently engaged with a historical study of the post-war evolution of labour regime in Taiwan.
Youqin Huang is an associate professor in the department of geography and planning and a research associate in the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. Her recent research focuses on housing, migration/mobility and urban development in China.
Joseph Lawson is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica.
Roderick MacFarquhar is the Leroy B. Williams professor of history and political science, at Harvard University. He was the founding editor of The China Quarterly.
Rachel Murphy is university lecturer in the sociology of China and fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford.
Kosal Path is lecturer at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California. He teaches courses on international relations of the Asia-Pacific.
Shakhar Rahav is a lecturer in the department of Asian studies at the University of Haifa. His recent research is on China's May Fourth movement of 1919.
Barry Sautman is a political scientist and lawyer at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His current research focuses on Africa–China links, as well as ethnic politics in China.
Jonathan Sullivan is associate professor in contemporary Chinese studies, University of Nottingham. His research focuses on political competition and political communications in various Chinese contexts.
May Tan-Mullins is an associate professor of international relations in the division of international studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. Her research interests include China and Africa developmental relations and environmental governance.
R. G. Tiedemann is professor of Chinese at Shandong University, Jinan, China, and professorial research associate at the Centre for Chinese Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His most recent publication is Huabei de baoli he konghuang: Yihetuan yundong qianxi Jidujiao chuanbo he shehui chongtu (Violence and Fear in North China: Christian Missions and Social Conflict on the Eve of the Boxer Uprising) (Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2011).
Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry professor in the school of humanities and sciences at Stanford University, where he is on the faculty of the department of sociology and Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is the author of Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement (Harvard University Press, 2009).
R. Bin Wong is director of the Asia Institute and distinguished professor of history at UCLA and a distinguished guest professor at the Fudan University Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences. He has recently authored with Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe (Harvard University Press, 2011).
Fulong Wu is Bartlett professor of planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He has published many papers on urban spatial structure, urban housing and land development, and is working on Chinese urbanism and urban development, urban and regional governance, urban poverty and social spatial differentiation.
Taomo Zhou is a PhD candidate at the department of history, Cornell University. Her current project focuses on the diplomatic relations and transnational social interactions between China and Indonesia in the Cold War era.
