Franck Billé is a cultural anthropologist/geographer based at UC Berkeley where he is Program Director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies. His research focuses on borders, space and sovereignty in northeast Asia. His most recent book, Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination, is forthcoming (Fall 2020) with Duke University Press. He is currently finalizing two other books, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke University Press), and On the Russia–China Border, co-authored with Caroline Humphrey (Harvard University Press).
Joseph Bosco is adjunct associate professor in the department of anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and research associate in the department of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is co-editor of Asian Anthropology.
Francesca Bray is professor emerita of social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her forthcoming book is entitled Moving Crops and the Scales of History.
Michael Chase is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Yangbin Chen is senior lecturer at the department of languages and linguistics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. He researches and publishes in the fields of China's ethnicity studies, with special interests in educational, cultural and language issues. He is the author of Muslim Uyghur Students in A Chinese Boarding School (Lexington Books, 2008) and the co-editor of Minority Education in China (Hong Kong University Press, 2014).
Hilda Rømer Christensen is head of the Coordination for Gender Research at University of Copenhagen. Since 2010 she has been a member of the Committee for Welfare and Innovation at the Sino-Danish University Centre in Beijing and heads a research project focused on World Dynamics in Micro Perspectives: (Re-)making Middle-Class Families, China–Denmark, including housing, mobility and transport. She is currently the scientific coordinator for the Horizon 2020 project: TINNGO, focused on gender, transport and smart mobilities in the EU (2019–2021).
Cathryn Clayton is a cultural anthropologist of China, and associate professor and chair of the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has published on history, memory and Chineseness in Macau.
Ting Gong is professor of political science at the City University of Hong Kong and distinguished chair professor at Fudan University, China. She is the co-author of Corruption Prevention and Governance in Hong Kong (2019) and the author of The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China (1994). She also co-edited Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia (2017) and Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity (2009).
Robert E. Hegel is Liselotte Dieckmann professor emeritus of comparative literature and Chinese at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he taught for 43 years.
Isabella Jackson is assistant professor in Chinese history at Trinity College Dublin, having previously lectured at the universities of Aberdeen and Oxford. She is the author of Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China's Global City (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and a recipient of an Irish Research Council Laureate Award.
Kyle A. Jaros is associate professor in the political economy of China at the University of Oxford and a visiting fellow (2019–2020) of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research examines central–local relations and the politics of urban development and governance in China.
Norman Kutcher is professor of history and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith professor for teaching excellence at Syracuse University. He is the author, most recently, of Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule (University of California Press, 2018).
Tony Liu is assistant professor in the Center for General Education/Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan). He is also affiliated with the Center for Contemporary China Studies, and the Center for Comprehensive Japan and Korea Studies at National Chung Hsing University. His research interests include international relations theory, international political economy, East Asia international relations, Chinese foreign policy and Japanese foreign policy.
Stephan Ortmann is assistant professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He has worked on various issues related to political change in Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Vietnam. His publications have appeared in many reputable journals including Asian Survey, Administration and Society, The China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Government and Opposition and Pacific Review. He is the author of Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong: Containing Contention (Routledge, 2010) and of Environmental Governance in Vietnam: Institutional Reforms and Failures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Maria Repnikova is an assistant professor of global communication at Georgia State University. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC).
Yunchiahn C. Sena is Kluger visiting assistant professor of Art at Trinity College Hartford Connecticut. She recently published Bronze and Stone: The Cult of Antiquity in Song Dynasty China Song Antiquarianism (University of Washington Press, 2019). Her research interests include Chinese antiquarianism, collective memories and cultural identity in visual art.
Patricia M. Thornton is an associate professor in the department of politics and international relations, and a tutor in the politics of China at Merton College, University of Oxford.
Joel Wuthnow is a research fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the US National Defense University and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. His research areas include Chinese foreign and security policy, Chinese military affairs, US–China relations, and strategic developments in East Asia. His recent books and monographs include Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms (NDU Press, 2019, as co-editor), Raging Waters: China, India, Bangladesh, and Brahmaputra River Politics (Maine Corps University Press, 2018, as co-author), China's Other Army: the People's Armed Police in an Era of Reform (NDU Press, 2019) and Chinese Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative (NDU Press, 2017).
Fan Yang is an associate professor in the department of media and communication studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author of Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2016).
John K. Yasuda is assistant professor of Chinese politics at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, specializing in regulatory governance, bureaucratic politics, and the politics of finance. His most recent book is On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
