ChrisAlden is a reader in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and director of the China in Africa Project, SAIIA. He is the author of China in Africa (Zed, 2007) and co-editor of China Returns to Africa (Hurst, 2008).
Hugh D. R. Baker is emeritus professor of Chinese, SOAS. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Hong Kong and published widely on Chinese rural society and on the Chinese kinship system.
Deborah A. Bräutigam teaches in the International Development programme at the American University's School of International Service. She is the author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (Macmillan, 1998), The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
JeremyBrown is assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. His publications include Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China, edited with Paul G. Pickowicz (Harvard University Press, 2007).
LingcheiLettyChen is associate professor of modern Chinese literature and director of the East Asian studies programme at Washington University. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University, NY, in 2001 and is author of Writing Chinese: Reshaping Chinese Cultural Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Her research interests include modern Chinese literature (including literature from Taiwan and Hong Kong), Chinese American literature, theories of postmodernism and postcolonialism, identity politics, globalization studies, and memory and history writing.
JaeHoChung is professor of international relations and director of the Institute for China Studies at Seoul National University. He is the author Between Ally and Partner: Korea–China Relations and the United States (Columbia University Press, 2007) and editor of China's Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in the Sub-national Hierarchy (Routledge, 2009).
GregorDobler is a lecturer in social anthropology at Basel University (Switzerland). He specializes in economic and political anthropology, anthropology of religion and social theory. His published work is based on extensive fieldwork in Western France and, since 2003, in Namibia.
RichardLouisEdmonds is visiting professor in the geographical studies program and an associate member of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. His interests focus around historical geography and environmental studies. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996–2002. Dr Edmonds has written extensively on China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. His most recent contribution is China's Embedded Activism: Opportunities and Constraints of a Social Movement (Routledge, 2007), co-edited with Peter Ho.
Mary S. Erbaugh is a courtesy research associate at the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon.
MarioEsteban is assistant professor of East Asian studies at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid and Senior Analyst for the Asia-Pacific region at Fundación Alternativas. He has written numerous books, book chapters and academic articles in Spanish and has published articles in China Aktuell and the European Journal of East Asia Studies.
Jörn-CarstenGottwald is a lecturer at the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies (UCC), National University of Ireland, Cork. He researches issues in China's political economy and Chinese–European relations.
DanHaglund is currently completing a doctorate in international development from the University of Bath. His main research interests include the political economy of business regulation, organizational learning and south–south foreign direct investment.
RachelHarris is senior lecturer in ethnomusicology at SOAS where she teaches courses in ethnomusicology and on the musics of Central Asia and China. Her current research specialism is in Uyghur music.
You-tienHsing is associate professor of geography at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Great Urban Transformation: The Politics of Land and Property in China (University of Oxford Press, 2009).
Christopher R. Hughes is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he teaches and researches international relations and foreign policy analysis with a special focus on China and Eastern Asia. His most recent monograph is Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era (Routledge, 2006).
WenranJiang holds the Mactaggart Research Chair at the China Institute, and is associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Alberta.
Paul R. Katz, research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, is a specialist in the history of Chinese religion and society. He has published numerous books and articles, including When Valleys Turned Blood Red: The Ta-pa-ni Incident in Colonial Taiwan (University of Hawai‛i Press, 2005), and Divine Justice: Religion and the Development of Chinese Legal Culture (Routledge, 2009).
RichardCurtKraus is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Oregon. He has written several books on the politics of Chinese culture, and is working on the aesthetic aspects of China's rise as a world power.
Y.Y. Kueh is a retired professor specializing in China economic studies. He has taught and done research in various universities in Hong Kong and elsewhere, and published many articles in various international journals, and over ten books by Oxford Clarendon, Hong Kong University, Chinese University of HK, Macmillan, RoutledgeCurzon, Edward Elgar, and others.
DanielLarge is research director of the Africa Asia Centre, Royal African Society at SOAS.
ChingKwanLee is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include labour, citizenship, rights, social movements, Africa and China. Her most recent book is Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (University of California Press, 2007).
DanielLeese is assistant professor of Sinology at the Institute of Chinese Studies Munich, Germany. He is editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of China and specializes in modern Chinese history.
AaronWilliamMoore is a historian of modern East Asia. His research languages include Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. His current manuscript is entitled The Peril of Self-Discipline: Chinese, Japanese, and American Servicemen Record the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1937–1945 and focuses on diary accounts of the war. He is published in Twentieth Century China, The Journal of Asian Studies, and Japan Focus. Other research interests include early 20th-century science fiction and social planning, the history of childhood in the modern era, and notions of Communist citizenship in diaries from the early PRC.
Ramon H. Myers is emeritus senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
BarrySautman is a political scientist and lawyer in the division of social science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His main areas of research are Africa/China relations and ethnic politics in China, especially the Tibet Question.
MarthaSaavedra has served as the associate director of the Center for African Studies UC Berkeley, since 1993. Her research interests include agrarian politics, ethnic conflict in Sudan, and gender and sport in Africa. Her recent publications include “Dilemmas and opportunities in gender and sport-in-development” in Sport and International Development, edited by Roger Levermore and Aaron Beacom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and a forthcoming article with Marianne Meier, “Esther Phiri and the Moutawakel effect in Zambia: an analysis of the use of female role models in sport for development” in The Social Impact of Sport, a special issue of Sport in Society (edited by Ramón Spaaij).
PhillipStalley is an assistant professor of political science at DePaul University.
Julia C. Strauss is senior lecturer in Chinese politics at the department of politics and international studies, SOAS and editor of The China Quarterly. She has published widely on state capacity in the 20th century Chinese state, and is currently working on a book manuscript that compares regime consolidation in China and Taiwan in the 1950s.
WanningSun is professor of Chinese media at the China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney. She is the author of Leaving China: Media, Migration, and the Transnational Imagination (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), Media and the Chinese Diaspora (ed., Routledge, 2006), and Maid in China: Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (Routledge, 2009).
DylanSutherland is a lecturer in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. His current research interests include the emergence, evolution and internationalisation of Chinese business groups.
TangXiaoyang is a PhD candidate in the philosophy department at the New School for Social Research in New York and is an adjunct professor at the City University of New York. He has published several articles and book chapters on Chinese engagement in Africa, innovations in emerging markets, and national identity.
JamesWicks is a PhD candidate in the department of literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is currently working on his dissertation entitled “The Antecedents of Taiwan New Cinema: The State of Taiwan Film in the 1960s and 1970s.”
RodWye is a research analyst at the North Asia and Pacific Research Group of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
MichaelYahuda is professor emeritus at the London School of Economics and a visiting scholar at the Sigur Center of Asian Studies, Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University. His latest book is as contributing editor to International Relations of Asia (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)
YanHairong is an anthropologist in the department of applied social sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her principal research interests are labour migration, rural–urban relations, and rural co-operatives in China, as well as China–Africa links. She is the author of New Masters/New Servants: Migration, Development and Women Workers in China (Duke University Press, 2008).
ShujieYao is head of school and professor of economics and Chinese sustainable development at the University of Nottingham. He is an expert on economic development in China and has published six research monographs and edited books as well as over 70 refereed journal articles. He is chief editor of the Social Science Edition of the Xi'an Jiaotong University Journal, and founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.
