Ryan M. Allen is a doctoral fellow and PhD candidate in the department of international and transcultural studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, majoring in international and comparative education, specializing in political science. He has published works on soft power, university rankings and Chinese educational history. He is currently working on his dissertation on the rise of global university rankings and higher education development in China.
Deborah Brautigam is the Bernard L. Schwartz professor of international political economy and director of the International Development Program and the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Her two latest books are The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (2009) and Will Africa Feed China? (2015).
Hugo Dobson is professor of Japan's international relations in the National Institute of Japanese Studies and is currently head of the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. His research interests are broadly divided into two strands. The first strand focuses upon international relations, multilateral organisations and global governance, especially the G8 and G20 and Japan's role therein. The second strand of his research explores the role of images in shaping our understanding of international relations and Japan's role in the world, from postage stamps and logos to TV programmes such as The Simpsons.
Brian C.H. Fong is associate director of the Academy of Hong Kong Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong.
A. Tom Grunfeld is SUNY distinguished teaching professor at Empire State College/SUNY and a visiting scholar at New York University. He specializes in modern Chinese and modern Tibetan history.
Björn Gustafsson is senior professor at the department of social work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany.
Rongbin Han is an assistant professor at the department of international affairs, University of Georgia. His research interests centre on internet politics, media politics and social activism in authoritarian regimes, with an area focus on China.
Rachel Harris is reader in the music of China and Central Asia at SOAS University of London. She is the author of two books on musical life in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and leader of the research project “Sounding Islam in China.”
Paul Hubbard is a Sir Roland Wilson PhD scholar at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His doctoral research concerns the economics of Chinese state-owned enterprises. He is on leave from the Australian treasury; his personal views do not necessarily reflect those of the treasury.
Chang-tai Hung is chair professor of humanities emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a visiting chair professor at the Faculty of Humanities, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Michael Keane is professor of Chinese media and cultural studies at Curtin University, Australia. His research interests are digital transformation in China, East Asian cultural and media policy, and creative industries and cultural export strategies in China and East Asia.
Andrew B. Kipnis is professor of anthropology at the Australian National University. His latest book is From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat (University of California Press, 2016). From 2006 to 2015 he was co-editor of The China Journal.
Mike McConville is emeritus professor and founding dean of the Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and formerly Dean of the Law School, City University of Hong Kong and head of department, School of Law, University of Warwick. His books include: Criminal Justice in China (2011) and, with Eva Pils, Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China (2013). More recently he has written (with Luke Marsh) Criminal Judges: Legitimacy, Courts and State-Induced Guilty Pleas in Britain.
Anne E. McLaren is professor of Chinese studies at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. A specialist in Chinese oral traditions and popular narratives, she is the author of Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China (2008) and other studies on pre-contemporary Chinese culture.
Matteo Pinna Pintor is a PhD candidate in development economics at SOAS University of London. He is currently working on the consequences of health status and health insurance on the labour market outcomes of Chinese rural households. His interests cover development economics, microeconomic theory and the economic and agrarian history of China and Western Europe.
Pun Ngai is professor at the department of applied social sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her new book is Migrant Labor in China: Post-socialist Transformation (Polity Press, 2016)
Luke Robinson is a lecturer in film studies at the University of Sussex. He is author of Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Sarah Rogers is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. Her research focuses on poverty alleviation, resettlement, the politics of water and local governance in China. She has published in Nature, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Global Environmental Change.
Joe Sample is an associate professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. His recent publications include a study of translingual writing in the Chinatown area of Houston, Texas in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies as well as chapters in Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches (Hong Kong University Press, 2011) and The Cross-cultural Legacy of Lin Yutang: Critical Perspectives (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley, 2016). He is working on a monograph tentatively titled Punch's China: Rhetorics and Poetics in the Age of Contempt.
Eric T. Schluessel is an assistant professor in the departments of history and political science at the University of Montana. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of Xinjiang in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Andreas Steen is associate professor of modern Chinese history and culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. He studied Sinology, English philology, and modern Chinese literature at the Free University of Berlin and Fudan University, Shanghai. His fields of research concentrate on modern Chinese history and popular culture, in particular popular music, the cultural industries, sound and memory studies.
Jonathan Sullivan is director of the China Policy Institute and associate professor in the School of Politics and IR at the University of Nottingham.
Niklas Swanström is director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, 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, and non-resident professor at Sichuan University and Leshan Normal University. His main areas of expertise are conflict prevention, conflict management and regional cooperation; Chinese foreign policy and security in Northeast Asia; traditional and non-traditional security threats and its effect on regional and national security as well as negotiations. His focus is mainly on Northeast Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.
Louise Tythacott is senior lecturer in curating and museology of Asian art in the department of the history of art and archaeology at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on the collecting and display of non-Western artefacts, and she has particular interests in the representation of Chinese and Buddhist art in museums. Her books include Surrealism and the Exotic (Routledge, 2003), The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display (Berghahn, 2011) and Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches (edited with Kostas Arvanitis, Ashgate, 2014). Her current research traces the trajectories of objects taken from the Yuanmingyuan in 1860. Her edited volume, The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France: Collecting and Displaying the “Summer Palace” in the West, will be published in 2017.
Emily Williams is a senior teaching fellow at SOAS University of London and lecturer at Christie's Education London. Her PhD looked at British engagements with Cultural Revolution material and visual culture.
