Børge Bakken is a visiting fellow at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australia National University. His latest book, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony, will be published by Polity Press in October.
Susanne Bregnbæk is an anthropologist and associate professor at University College Copenhagen in Denmark. She is the author of Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China's Top University Students (Stanford University Press, 2016), which described the existential and political quandaries of Chinese elite university students in Beijing.
Adam Cathcart is lecturer in Chinese history at the University of Leeds, with research interests in the Sino-North Korean border region and Northeast China after 1945.
Brendan Clift is a lecturer at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. His recent research and publications focus on Hong Kong legal affairs and aspects of media law.
Manfred Elfstrom is an assistant professor in the department of economics, philosophy and political science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is the author of Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His research interests include China, social movements, labour and authoritarianism.
Carla P. Freeman is a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute at its School of Advanced International Studies and an adjunct professor in its China programme. She is concurrently a senior expert for China at the United States Institute of Peace.
Qijun Han is associate professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. She received her doctorate in media and cultural studies from Utrecht University. Her research interests lie in the intersections of history, culture and identity in the Chinese context.
Marcia Don Harpaz is an adjunct lecturer in the international relations department and faculty of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She previously served as director of the International Agreements Division in Israel's Ministry of Economy, and as senior economist-investigator in the ministry's Trade Levies Unit. Her research, teaching and publications focus on international political economy, international economic law, China and the international economic system, and Israel's foreign trade and investment policy.
Emilian Kavalski is the inaugural NAWA chair professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and the book series editor for Routledge's “Rethinking Asia and International Relations” series. His work explores the interconnections between the simultaneous decentring of international relations by post-Western perspectives and non-anthropocentric approaches. Emilian is the author of four books, including The Guanxi of Relational International Theory (Routledge, 2018), and the editor of 11 volumes, including World Politics at the Edge of Chaos (State University of New York Press, 2016).
Fengshu Liu is professor at the faculty of educational sciences, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research cuts across childhood and youth studies, comparative and international education, sociology of education, gender studies, generational studies and China studies. Her recent books are Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self and Modernization as Lived Experiences: Three Generations of Young Men and Women in China (Routledge, 2021). She also coordinates the new MPhil programme in “Education and Social Change: Childhood and Youth Studies” at the University of Oslo.
Margaret M. Pearson is Dr. Horace V. and Wilma E. Harrison distinguished professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on China's domestic and international political economy.
Thomas G. Rawski is emeritus professor of economics and history at the University of Pittsburgh.
Gerald Roche is a senior research fellow in the department of politics, media and philosophy at La Trobe University and a co-chair of the Global Coalition for Language Rights.
Florian Schneider is senior university lecturer in the politics of modern China at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is managing editor of Asiascape: Digital Asia, director of the Leiden Asia Centre, and the author of three books: Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle (Leiden University Press, 2019, recipient of the ICAS Book Prize 2021 Accolades), China's Digital Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series (Brill, 2013, recipient of the 2014 EastAsiaNet book prize). His research interests include questions of governance, political communication and digital media in China, as well as international relations in the East-Asian region.
James D. Seymour is a New York-based independent scholar.
Tim Summers is assistant professor in the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His most recent book is China's Hong Kong: The Politics of a Global City (Agenda, second edition, 2021).
Gina Anne Tam is an associate professor of history and co-chair of women and gender studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), winner of a Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best Book Award.
Kirill O. Thompson is specialized in Confucianism and Daoism but broadly interested in Chinese and Western philosophy. He teaches at National Taiwan University and his articles have appeared in Philosophy East and West, China Review International and elsewhere. He is a founding member of Humanities for the Environment (HfE, https://hfe-observatories.org) and Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (APSAFE, https://www.apsafe.online).
Sebastian Veg is professor of the intellectual history of 20th-century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. His latest book is Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals (Columbia University Press, 2021).
Robert P. Weller is professor of anthropology at Boston University. His most recent books are The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies (with C. Julia Huang and Keping Wu, Cambridge University Press, 2017) and How Things Count as the Same (with Adam Seligman, Oxford University Press, 2018).
Liang Xu is an assistant professor at the School of International Studies of Peking University. His research and teaching interests include African social history, Chinese diaspora in Africa and China–Africa relations.
Zinian Zhang is a lecturer of business law at school of law, University of Leeds, UK. He specializes in corporate and financial law and regularly publishes research findings in world-renowned journals, such as European Business Organization Law Review and Columbia Journal of Asian Law. His latest monograph is Corporate Reorganization in China: An Empirical Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Prior to his academic career, he practised law in Hangzhou for a decade.
