Chris Bramall is professor emeritus at SOAS University of London and a former editor of The China Quarterly. His publications include In Praise of Maoist Economic Planning (1993), Chinese Economic Development (2009), “A Late Maoist Industrial Revolution: Economic Growth in Jiangsu Province” (The China Quarterly, December 2019), and “Living Standards in Maoist China” (forthcoming in Ma Debin ed., The Cambridge Economic History of China, 2022).
Kevin Caffrey has taught anthropology, Asian studies, social theory, political theory, ethnic/religious conflict and other topics at Harvard University, American University, George Washington University and The University of Chicago. He conducted years of ethnographic fieldwork in China and its highland Southeast Asian frontiers, focusing on the Chinese Muslim people of that region and their interlocutors.
Olivia Cheung is research fellow at SOAS China Institute, SOAS University of London. She is currently working with Steve Tsang on a book analysing the political thought of Xi Jinping.
Siu-Keung Cheung is professor of sociology at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. He authored Gender and Community under British Colonialism (Routledge, 2007) and a number of journal articles, book chapters and monographs on Hong Kong Chinese society and culture. He co-edited Social Transformations in Chinese Societies (the official journal of the Hong Kong Sociological Association), Marginalization in China (Palgrave, 2009), and China's Rise to Power (Palgrave, 2012).
Vanessa L. Fong is Olin professor in Asian studies (anthropology) and chair of the department of anthropology and sociology at Amherst College. She is engaged in longitudinal research about how the experiences of a partly transnational cohort of Chinese only-children and their families shed light on anthropological, sociological and psychological theories.
Timothy Grose is an associate professor of China Studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His research on expressions of Uyghur ethno-national identities and public performances of Islamic piety has been published in the China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, Ethnic and Racial Studies, China File, Dissent and Foreign Policy. His first book on boarding schools for Uyghur students, Negotiating Inseparability, was published by Hong Kong University Press in 2019 and awarded the 2020 Central Eurasian Studies Society book prize in social sciences.
Jonathan Hassid is an associate professor of political science at Iowa State University. Much of his work concentrates on the politics of the Chinese news media, and he has published articles in The China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Communication, Journalism and elsewhere. His 2015 book China's Unruly Journalists is now available in paperback (Routledge).
Colin Hawes is associate professor in the law faculty at University of Technology Sydney. His research focuses on Chinese corporate law and corporate culture.
Christopher Howe is emeritus professor of Chinese business management at SOAS University of London.
Lauren Johnston is research associate, China Institute, SOAS University of London, and is widely published in the area of China–Africa economic relations.
Yi Kang is assistant professor of government and international studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research examines civil society, state–society relationship, grassroots organizing and local governance, with a focus on contemporary China. She is author of Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era (Springer, 2015).
Lena Kaufmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of history and a research associate at the department of social anthropology and cultural studies, both at the University of Zurich. Trained as an anthropologist and sinologist in Berlin, Rome and Shanghai, she spent nearly four years in China, researching the nexus of technologies, knowledge and migration. She is the author of Rural–Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China (2021). Her current project focuses on fibre optic cables and network components, investigating complex socio-technical and politico-economic Sino-Swiss entanglements in digital infrastructures.
David M. Lampton, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins – SAIS, currently is senior research fellow at its Foreign Policy Institute. His most recent book with Professor Selina Ho and Professor Cheng-Chwee Kuik is Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 2020).
Deborah Seligsohn is an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, US–China relations and science, energy and environmental politics in China and India. Prior to receiving her PhD in political science and international affairs from the University of California San Diego in 2018, she served as senior advisor to the World Resources Institute's China Climate and Energy Program, and as a foreign service officer, with numerous overseas tours, including three in China.
Giorgio Strafella is a researcher at the department of Asian studies, Palacký University Olomouc. He is the author of Intellectual Discourse in Reform Era China: The Debate on the Spirit of the Humanities in the 1990s (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor with Daria Berg of The Avant-Garde in Post-Socialist China, 1978–2018: The Art of Transculturality (Routledge, forthcoming).
Kristie Thomas is deputy head of Aston Law School, Birmingham, UK. With an academic background in law and Chinese studies, her research interests incorporate elements of commercial law, reflecting her research interests in international trade, intellectual property, comparative law and business practice more generally.
Edward Vickers is professor of comparative education at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. His recent books include Education and Society in Post-Mao China (2017, with Zeng Xiaodong) and Remembering Asia's World War Two (2019, with Mark Frost and Daniel Schumacher). He is director of Kyushu University's interdisciplinary Taiwan Studies Program, secretary-general of the Comparative Education Society of Asia, and co-editor of The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture.
Guanli Zhang is the Shuimu Tsinghua post-doctoral fellow in the department of sociology, Tsinghua University, China. He obtained a DPhil in geography and the environment at University of Oxford in 2019. His specializes in the social anthropology of contemporary China, with a special focus on issues of environmental health and migration.
