T.H. Barrett is professor of East Asian history at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of a number of studies of the history of Chinese religion and of Western writing on China, most recently The Woman Who Discovered Printing (Yale University Press, 2008).
Huajian Cai is a professor at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He studies self-esteem, narcissism, implicit social cognition and cultural influences on these constructs. He is currently an associate editor of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
Michael S. Chase is a senior political Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Arlington, VA, and an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC.
James Chu is a PhD candidate in the sociology department at Stanford University.
Xuan Dong recently completed his PhD in anthropology at the Australian National University. He is assistant professor and “Chenhui Scholar” in the department of education, East China Normal University. His research focuses on anthropology of education and youth culture.
Lisa Eklund is postdoctoral research fellow at the department of sociology, Lund University, Sweden.
Matthew S. Erie, a lawyer and an anthropologist, is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. His research examines property, religion and the status of minorities in contemporary China. He has published a number of articles on these questions in such journals as Law & Social Inquiry, Hong Kong Law Journal and China Information. Beginning fall 2015, he will be associate professor of modern Chinese studies at the University of Oxford. His book China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law will be forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2016.
Victor Fan is lecturer in film studies, King's College London, and film consultant of the Chinese Visual Festival. His book Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory was published in 2015 by the University of Minnesota Press. His articles appeared in journals including Camera Obscura, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Screen, and Film History: An International Journal.
Natascha Gentz (Vittinghoff) took up the position as chair of Chinese at the University of Edinburgh in 2006. Her studies included residences at Fudan University, Shanghai (1988–90), People's University, Beijing (1995–96), and Tokyo University (1997). After her PhD she was engaged in various funded research projects and in teaching in the Chinese Departments at Heidelberg and Göttingen University. In 2002 she became junior professor at Frankfurt University, before she moved to Edinburgh.
Melvyn C. Goldstein is the John Reynolds Harness professor of anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is also a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Peter Gries is the Harold and Ruth Newman chair and director of the Institute for US–China Issues at the University of Oklahoma. He studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on Chinese and American foreign policy. Prof. Gries is the author of China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy (University of California Press, 2004), and the co-editor of State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation (Routledge, 2004) and Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market (Routledge, 2010). His latest book is The Politics of American Foreign Policy: How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs (Stanford University Press, 2014).
Gang Guo is the Croft associate professor of political science and international studies at the University of Mississippi. He received his PhD degree in political science from the University of Rochester in 2002. His current research interests revolve around local political economy in China. He has published peer-reviewed articles in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly and Asian Survey.
Xuezhi Guo is professor of political science and East Asian studies and director of intercultural studies at Guilford College, North Carolina, USA. He is the author of China's Security State: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and The Ideal Chinese Political Leader: A Historical and Cultural Perspective (Praeger, 2002).
Yingjie Guo is professor of Chinese studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Sydney. His research interests include cultural nationalism in China, and discourses of the nation and class in the post-Mao era. His most recent publication is Handbook on Class and Stratification in China (forthcoming with Edward Elgar).
Rongbin Han is assistant professor in the department of international affairs, University of Georgia. His research interests centre on regime transition, media politics and social activism in authoritarian regimes, with an area focus on China.
William J. Hurst is associate professor of political science at Northwestern University, where his current and on-going research focuses on the comparative politics of courts and legal institutions in China and Indonesia. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is the author of The Chinese Worker after Socialism (2009), co-editor of Laid-off Workers in a Workers' State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics (2009) and Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (2015).
Natalie Johnson is a project manager for the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
Andrew T. Kaiser is an independent researcher living and working in Shanxi since 1997. His doctoral thesis examined Timothy Richard's early years in China.
Paul R. Katz is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, and programme director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. His research centres on modern Chinese religious life, with his most recent monograph (Religion in China and its Modern Fate) published in 2014. At present, he is working on the interaction between Han and non-Han religious traditions in Southwest China.
Paize Keulemans teaches late-imperial Chinese literature at Princeton University. His book, Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination, was published in 2014 by Asia Center Press at Harvard University. His current project, Idle Chatter: The Productive Uses of Gossip in 17th–Century Literature, investigates the early-modern information economy of Chinese novels and opera produced in the late-Ming age.
Jonathan J. Kinkel earned a PhD in government in May 2015 from the University of Texas at Austin, where he focused on Chinese politics and comparative law. He is also the author of “High-End Demand: The Legal Profession as a Source of Judicial Selection Reform in Urban China” (forthcoming in Law and Social Inquiry and winner of the 2014 Law and Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition). Before pursuing a PhD, he also served for three years (2005–08) as an assistant attorney general at the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Jeffrey C. Kinkley is a retired professor of history at St. John's University, New York. His latest book is Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels (Columbia University Press, 2015).
Sabina Knight teaches Chinese and comparative literature at Smith College. She is author of The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Harvard University Press, 2006) and Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Karrie J. Koesel is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Religion and Authoritarianism: Cooperation, Conflict, and the Consequences (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She is currently working on a book about political education in China.
Weijun Lai is a PhD candidate in the department of sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on civil society development in China.
George C. S. Lin is chair professor of geography and associate dean of social sciences, The University of Hong Kong.
Chengfang Liu is an associate professor at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Kristen E. Looney is an assistant professor at Georgetown University. She teaches courses on Chinese politics for the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Asian Studies Program and the department of government. She is writing a book on the politics of rural modernization in East Asia.
Prashant Loyalka is a centre research fellow and faculty member of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
Ma Ran currently teaches film studies at the Global-30 “Japan-in-Asia” cultural studies programme, Nagoya University, Japan. Her research interests include Asian independent cinemas and film festivals, on which she has published several journal articles and book chapters.
Yue Ma is a PhD candidate at the Center for Experimental Economics in Education at Shaanxi Normal University.
Colin Mackerras first went to teach in Beijing in 1964 and has worked at Griffith University as professor since 1974. He has published widely, especially on China's ethnic minorities and its theatre, and on Western images of China.
Françoise Mengin is senior research fellow at the Centre for International Research (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris. She recently published Fragments of an Unfinished War: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China (Hurst, 2015).
Judy Polumbaum is a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, who has followed Chinese media developments for the past 35 years.
Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth senior fellow and the co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
Matthew A. Sanders is a visiting postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma. He recently graduated with his PhD in social psychology under the direction of Dr. Leonard Martin at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on how political ideology impacts decision making styles.
Yaojiang Shi is a professor at Shaanxi Normal University and the director of the Center for Experimental Economics in Education.
Dorothy J. Solinger is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Contesting Citizenship in Urban China and State's Gains, Labor's Losses. Her current work is on urban poverty and laid-off workers.
Anthony J. Spires is associate professor in the department of sociology and associate director of the Centre for Civil Society Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on international NGOs and organizational culture.
David R. Stroup is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on nationalism, ethnicity and the politics of urban renewal in China.
Jonathan Sullivan is lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is currently researching the political uses and effects of new and social media in China.
Richard P. Suttmeier has written widely on the development of science and technology in China. His most recent paper, “An Innovation System for the 21st Century? Reflections on China's Science and Technology Reforms,” appeared in the February 2015 issue of the Journal of the Dialectics of Nature.
Lin Tao is associate professor in the department of sociology at Peking University. His research interests include altruism, pro-social behaviour, volunteerism and non-profit organizations.
Ulrich Volz is a senior lecturer in the department of economics at SOAS, University of London. He is also a senior research fellow at the German Development Institute and an honorary professor of East Asian economics at the University of Leipzig.
Qinghua Wang is an assistant professor of political science in the School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China. He works primarily on Chinese education, especially the politics and policies of higher education in China. His current research interest also includes Chinese intellectual discourse and politics. He has published in The China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China and Asian Perspective.
Siu Wai Wong is research assistant professor at the department of building and real estate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her doctoral degree from the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests focus on state–society relations, rural governance and urbanization in China.
Hongmei Yi is an assistant professor at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Linxiu Zhang is a professor and deputy director at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Yongnian Zheng is director and professor in East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He focuses on China's domestic transformation and foreign policy. His latest co-edited volume is China Entering the Xi Jinping Era (2015).
Jiangang Zhu is an anthropology professor from the School of Sociology and Anthropology at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou. His research focuses on NGOs, community development and philanthropy.
Cai (Vera) Zuo is an assistant professor at School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. Before working in Fudan, she worked as a visiting assistant professor at the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is interested in authoritarianism, political methodology, social policy, bureaucratic politics and Chinese politics.
