Jennifer Adams is an assistant professor at Stanford University School of Education, specializing in research on the effects of social change and educational policy on the well-being of children and adolescents in rural China. She teaches graduate courses in international education and development, international educational policymaking, and survey research methods.
Nick Admussen is an assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at Cornell University. He is currently completing a book on contemporary Chinese prose poetry.
Anna L. Ahlers is a PhD student and junior lecturer at the chair of Greater China studies, University of Tübingen. Her dissertation investigates contemporary China's local governance and policy implementation at county, township and village level, by analysing the “Building of a New Socialist Countryside” in four empirical cases.
Paul J. Bailey is professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Durham, and is co-director of its Chinese studies programme. His publications include Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Gender and Education in China (Routledge Curzon, 2007), and China in the Twentieth Century (Blackwell, 2001). His next book, Chinese Overseas Labour in World War One France: Migrants, Globalisation and the Sino-French Connection will be published by Routledge in 2014.
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).
Ernest Caldwell is lecturer in Chinese law at SOAS, University of London. His research and teaching focuses on traditional and modern Chinese legal history, comparative constitutional law, and comparative legal historiography.
John F. Corbett, Jr., an analytic director with CENTRA Technology, Inc. since 2001, specializes in China, Taiwan, and Asian military, intelligence and security issues. He retired as a Colonel after a career in the US Army as a military intelligence/China Foreign Area Officer (FAO), having served as an Army Attaché in Beijing (1986–88) and Hong Kong (1992–98). He has published articles in The China Quarterly and The China Strategic Review and has contributed chapters on the Chinese military to a series of books published by the US Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute.
Andrew S. Erickson is an associate professor in the US Naval War College's China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). He is also an Associate in Research at Harvard University's John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Bruce Gilley is associate professor of political science and director of the doctoral program in public affairs and policy at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government of Portland State University. His research centres on the comparative and international politics of China and Asia, as well as on democratization and legitimacy.
Christian Göbel is junior professor of Chinese studies at Heidelberg University. His current research interests include the political economy of technological innovation in China and the impact of local change agents on rural reform trajectories. He is the author of The Politics of Rural Reform in China (Routledge, 2010) and The Politics of Community Building in Urban China (Routledge, 2011, with Thomas Heberer).
Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo. She has written about minority education, migrations to minority areas, and, most recently, individualization processes in the Chinese state school.
Alex Jingwei He is a lecturer in the department of Asian and policy studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education. He received his PhD degree from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He specializes in health policy and reforms, and public policy analysis with special reference to the Greater China region.
Sebastian Heilmann is director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin and professor for the political economy of China at the University of Trier. With Elizabeth J. Perry he co-edited Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China (Harvard University Press, 2011).
Ming-sho Ho is a professor in the department of sociology, National Taiwan University. He researches environmental and labour politics in Taiwan. His forthcoming book, Working-Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.
Andreas Hofem holds an MA in Chinese studies and political science from the University of Heidelberg. His research focus is environmental technology and policy in China. He works in a German federal ministry.
Jonathan Holslag is a research fellow at the Free University Brussels.
Niv Horesh is associate professor in Chinese studies at the University of Western Sydney and senior fellow with the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham. His most recent book is Chinese Money in Global Context, published this year by Stanford University Press. His next book projects entail an economic history of Shanghai as well as a historical critique of Chinese exceptionalism, as envisioned in Beijing.
Xianwen Kuang has been employed as PhD research fellow at the department of political science and public management, the University of Southern Denmark since January 2011. He received a Master's Degree in Asian studies from Lund University in June 2010.
Hongbin Li is C.V. Starr professor of economics in the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Adam P. Liff is a doctoral candidate in Princeton University's department of politics. He is also a Minerva Scholar affiliated with the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
Lingsheng Meng is assistant professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.
Rana Mitter, University of Oxford, is author of China's War with Japan, 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival (Allen Lane, 2013).
Seung-Youn Oh is an assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College, specializing in international relations and comparative politics in East Asia. Her broader academic interests include China's industrial restructuring and upgrading, state-owned enterprise reform and corporate governance, the effects of national origin of foreign direct investment on local economic development, as well as the evolving role of Chinese governments at the national and sub-national levels in shaping the country's developmental path.
Tim Pringle is lecturer in labour, social movements and development at SOAS, University of London.
Dongtao Qi is research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He received PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and does research on Taiwanese nationalism, Chinese higher education, social movements and state–society relations in mainland China and Taiwan.
Jiwei Qian is a research associate in the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD degree in economics from NUS and BSC in computer science from Fudan University, Shanghai. His current research is on health economics and health policy in China.
Meg Rithmire is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She received her PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2011. Her research interests include land politics, local public finance, and urban development in China.
Gunter Schubert is the chair of Greater China Studies at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany. He is also director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT). His current research focuses, among other, on the strategic behaviour and political autonomy of county and township cadres in the process of local governance reforms in the PRC.
Zhihua Shen is a professor of history and director, Center for Cold War International History Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. He is the author of many books and articles on the Korean War and Sino-Soviet relations.
Xinzheng Shi is assistant professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.
Lea Shih holds an MA in political science and media studies from the University of Trier. She is currently completing her PhD dissertation, a diachronic analysis of Chinese industrial policy-making.
Elina Sinkkonen is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, department of politics and international relations. Her on-going doctoral research is affiliated to the project China's War with Japan, directed by Rana Mitter.
Lyman P. Van Slyke is professor emeritus of history (modern China) at Stanford University. His principal fields of research and writing have been the history of the Chinese Communist movement and Sino-American relations during the first half of the 20th century. He contributed the chapter on the Chinese Communist movement during the Sino-Japanese war for the Cambridge History of China, and was guest associate editor of Stuart Schram (ed.), Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912–1949, Vol. 7. He also edited the China White Paper (1949) and the War Department's The Chinese Communist Movement (1945). He is the author of Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River (1988).
Niklas Swanström is director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy (www.isdp.eu), and one of its co-founders. He is a research fellow at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. His main areas of expertise are conflict prevention, conflict management and regional cooperation; Chinese foreign policy and security in Northeast Asia; narcotics trafficking and its effect on regional and national security as well as negotiations. His focus is mainly on Northeast Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.
R. G. Tiedemann is a professor of Chinese history in the School of History and Culture, Shandong University, and a professorial research associate at SOAS, University of London.
Sebastian Veg is a research professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS), Paris, currently on secondment as director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC), Hong Kong. His research is on literary and intellectual debates in 20th-century China.
Andrew Wedeman is a professor of political science at Georgia State University. His publications include Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China (Cornell University Press, 2012); From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Professor Wedeman is now beginning a new book project examining social unrest in China.
Binzhen Wu is assistant professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.
Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London. His research includes China's urban development and planning and its social and sustainable challenges. He is co-editor of Restructuring the Chinese City (Routledge, 2005), Marginalization in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), International Perspectives on Suburbanization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Rural Migrants in Urban China (Routledge, 2013), editor of Globalization and the Chinese City (Routledge, 2006), China's Emerging Cities (Routledge, 2007), and co-author of Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market, and Space (Routledge, 2007) and China's Urban Poverty (Edward Elgar, 2010).
Lisa Yiu is a PhD candidate in education at Stanford University, currently writing her dissertation on the integration of rural migrant children in Chinese urban schools. Her research interests include education and social stratification in China, educational policy, education equity and migration.
Adrian Zenz obtained an MA in development studies before managing development projects in China. He then pursued a PhD in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, focusing on Tibetan education and ethnicity-career dynamics in Qinghai, Western China. He presently teaches transformational development at the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany.
Yue Zhang is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her principal research interests are comparative politics, urban politics and cultural policy She is the author of The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
