Ramses Amer is a senior research fellow in the department of oriental languages, Stockholm University, and a research associate at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs (SIIA). His major areas of research are security issues and conflict resolution in Southeast Asia and the wider Pacific Asia and the role of the United Nations in the international system. He is the author of The Sino-Vietnamese Approach to Managing Boundary Disputes (Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit, University of Durham, 2002).
Ildikó Bellér-Hann is associate professor in the department of cross-cultural and region studies at the University of Copenhagen. She has carried out extensive empirical research in Turkey, China and Kazakhstan.
Chen Shaofeng is an assistant professor at the school of international studies, Peking University. His current research focuses on energy security, China's overseas investment and foreign relations with neighbouring countries.
Peng Chen is a PhD candidate in the department of sociology of Tsinghua University. His main research interests include urban movements, sociology of citizenship, rural sociology, and his recent publications include “Urban Homeowners' Legal Rights Activism in Contemporary China” (Shehuixue yanjiu [Sociological Studies], 2008, No.1).
Xi Chen is an assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Yinghong Cheng is an associate professor of history at Delaware State University, USA.
Neil J. Diamant is associate professor of Asian law and society at Dickinson College. His most recent book is Embattled Glory: Veterans, Military Families and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949–2007 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).
Jacob Edmond is senior lecturer in the department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, forthcoming), editor (with Henry Johnson and Jacqueline Leckie) of Recentring Asia: Histories, Encounters, Identities (Brill / Global Oriental, 2011), and editor and translator (with Hilary Chung) of Yang Lian's Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland (Auckland University Press, 2006).
Ashley Esarey teaches Asian politics and political communication at Whitman College in Washington State. He is an associate in research at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a visiting scholar at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies. His publications concern perceptions of Chinese propaganda, state control of information in the People's Republic, and the impact of digital communication on Chinese politics.
Stephan Feuchtwang is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor (Routledge, 2001) and The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma and Ghosts; Chinese Lessons for Adequate Theory (De Gruyter, 2010).
Mark W. Frazier is an associate professor of international and area studies at the University of Oklahoma, where he also holds the ConocoPhillips professorship in Chinese politics. His latest book is Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press, 2010).
Yuhua Guo is professor of social anthropology in the department of sociology of Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on peasants' oral history and the issue of social justice in the process of social transformation. Her recent publications include “The Narrative of ‘Suffering People’ as the Historical Testimony” (Shehuixue yanjiu [Sociological Studies], 2008, No.1).
Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She is currently working on her first manuscript Antiquity in Revolution: Cultural Relics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai.
Henry L. Hu is a PhD candidate of law at the University of Hong Kong. His current research area covers internet governance, telecommunication and judicial system.
Paul R. Katz is a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. A specialist in the history of Chinese religion and society, his latest publications include: When Valleys Turned Blood Red: The Ta-pa-ni Incident in Colonial Taiwan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2005; Chinese version published in 2006), and Divine Justice: Religion and the Development of Chinese Legal Culture (Routledge, 2009).
Si-ming Li is currently chair professor of geography and director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. His main research interests are on housing and urban development in China (including Hong Kong).
Bonnie S. McDougall is professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and visiting professor in the department of Chinese studies at the University of Sydney. Her publications are mostly studies and translations of modern Chinese literature.
Rana Mitter is professor of the history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford. He has recently edited, with Aaron William Moore, a special edition of Modern Asian Studies on “World War II in China: Experience, Legacy, and Memory.”
Pál Nyiri is professor of history from an anthropological perspective at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His research focuses on contemporary migration from China. His most recent book is Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China (University of Washington Press, 2010).
Dan Overmyer, who has published many books and articles about the history of Chinese religions, has retired from this work and is now dedicating his time to the preservation and enhancement of the natural world in the Vancouver area.
Ying Qian is a PhD candidate in Chinese history in the department of East Asian languages and civilizations, Harvard University, with a secondary field in film and visual studies. She is completing a dissertation on the history of Chinese documentary cinema from China's Republican era to the present, and has been both a maker and curator of documentary films.
Helen Rees is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses mainly on traditional musics of southwest China, and on the intersection of Chinese traditional musics with developing notions of intellectual property and intangible cultural heritage. Her most recent book is the edited volume Lives in Chinese Music (University of Illinois Press, 2009).
Simon Shen is associate professor in the department of social sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education, visiting fellow of the Center of Northeast Asian Policy Studies of Brookings Institution, and adjunct associate professor and chief co-ordinator of the Master of Global Political Economy Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Sino-American relations, contemporary Chinese foreign policy, Chinese nationalism, anti-terrorism and regional security and external relations of Hong Kong.
Ronald Suleski is professor of history and director of the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies at Suffolk University in Boston. His book Civil Government in Warlord China: Tradition, Modernization and Manchuria (Peter Lang, 2002) is scheduled to be published in 2011 in a Chinese-language version titled Zhang Zuolin yu Wang Yongjiang: Junfa shiqi de Fengtian zhengfu.
Jonathan Sullivan is RCUK fellow in the school of politics and international relations at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses primarily on political communications in China and Taiwan.
Hiroki Takeuchi is assistant professor of political science and fellow of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at the Southern Methodist University. His research interests include Chinese and Japanese politics, comparative political economy of authoritarian regimes, and political economy and international relations of East Asia, as well as applying game theory to political science. His recent publication includes “Informal Lenders and Rural Finance in China: A Report from the Field” (co-authored with Li Zhou), Modern China, 36 (2010).
Shzr Ee Tan a lecturer with the music department at Royal Holloway, University of London. She researches aboriginal song in Taiwan, and musics of new media cultures in the Chinese diaspora.
Jonathan Unger is a professor in the political and social change department at the Australian National University. He has published more than a dozen books about China. The most recent, as co-author, is Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization (University of California Press, 2009).
Danning Wang is teaching at the anthropology department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research speciality is in the field of urban studies, applied anthropology, and the study of gender and family issues in China. She is working on a volume (with Maria Siumi Tam and Wai Ching Wong) on gender and family in East Asia.
Rod Wye is a freelance commentator on Asia and a former analyst in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
Ping Xu is a PhD candidate in political science at Louisiana State University.
Yusheng Yao is associate professor of history at Rollins College, Florida. His research interest is China's education reform and rural reconstruction in the 20th century.
Chiew Ping Yew is research associate at the East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore. She obtained her PhD in political science from the National University of Singapore in 2009. Her research interests include the politics of land use conversion in China, which was the topic of her doctoral thesis, state–society relations in China, as well as comparative development and democratization in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
Quansheng Zhao is professor of international relations and director of the Center for Asian Studies at American University in Washington, DC.
Xufeng Zhu is an associate professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, China, and was a Yenching visiting scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute. His major research interests in China studies are the policy process, think tanks, policy analyses, and social stratification in transitional China.
