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” (in The China Quarterly, December 2019), and “Living Standards in Maoist China” (forthcoming in Ma Debin ed., The Cambridge Economic History of China, 2022).
Harriet Evans is emeritus professor of Chinese cultural studies at the University of Westminster and visiting professor in anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center was published by Duke University in May 2020. Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China (Lexington Books), co-edited with Michael Rowlands, was published in 2021.
Hualing Fu is professor of law and holder of the Warren Chan professorship in human rights and responsibilities at the University of Hong Kong.
Paul Gladston is Judith Neilson chair professor of contemporary art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Daniel R. Hammond is a lecturer in Chinese politics and society at the University of Edinburgh.
Rachel Harris is professor of ethnomusicology at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on religious and expressive culture among the Uyghurs, and cultural policy in China.
Genia Kostka is a professor of Chinese politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on digital transformation, environmental politics and political economy with a regional focus on China. Her most recent research project explores how digital technologies are integrated into local decision-making and governance structures in China (ERC Starting Grant 2020–2025).
Zhuang Liu is an associate professor at the faculty of law, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the role of the courts and judicial behaviour, as well as law and development. He applies quantitative methods to study Chinese law.
Pál Nyíri is professor of global history from an anthropological perspective at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His research focuses on the international mobility of Chinese elites. His most recent books are Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World and Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China are Changing a Region (with Danielle Tan). He is editor of the series “New Mobilities in Asia” at Amsterdam University Press.
Gerald Roche is a senior research fellow at La Trobe University and a co-chair of the Global Coalition for Language Rights. His research has focused on the politics of languages in Tibet and the transnational Himalayas, as well as broader issues related to language revitalization and linguistic justice. His academic publications have appeared in American Anthropologist, Patterns of Prejudice, The China Quarterly, and Politics, Territory, Governance, among others, and his writing can also be found in The Nation, Jacobin, and ROAR Magazine.
Jing Song is an associate professor in the Gender Studies Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a researcher (by courtesy) at the Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her main research interests include gender and family in urbanization, migration and modernization processes.
Benjamin Steuer is an assistant professor at the Division of Environment and Sustainability within the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research centres on China's circular economy, urban China's waste management and its political economy of sustainability.
Ping Sun is an assistant professor at the department of journalism and communication at the Chinese Academy of Social Science. Her research interests are ICTs, new media and digital labour. In particular, she is interested in how technology and digitalization affect the livelihoods of digital labourers.
Kharis Templeman is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he is the programme manager of the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. He is also a lecturer in the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University.
Patricia M. Thornton is an associate professor of political science at the University of Oxford, and tutor in the politics of China at Merton College.
Hans van de Ven is professor of Chinese modern history at Cambridge. His most recent works are China at War (Profile, 2017) and The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which he edited with Timothy Cheek and Klaus Mühlhahn. At present he is writing a book on the Second World War in China, Indonesia and India.
Benoît Vermander teaches anthropology of religion and the hermeneutics of Chinese Classics at Fudan University (Shanghai). He has notably authored Shanghai Sacred: The Religious Landscape of a Global City (with L. Hingley and L. Zhang, 2018) and Corporate Social Responsibility in China (2014).
Alex Wang is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law and a faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. His research focuses on Chinese law, politics and environmental regulation. His Twitter feed can be found at @greenlawchina.
