Yuen Yuen Ang is assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, she was a faculty member at Columbia University SIPA (School of International and Public Affairs). Her research focuses on the political economy of development, bureaucracies, public finance and state–business relations. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines China's reform-era bureaucratic model as an alternative to the Weberian ideal at early stages of development.
T. H. Barrett is professor of East Asian history at SOAS. 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).
Melanie Beresford is associate professor in economics at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published extensively on the political economy of Southeast Asian transition economies (chiefly Vietnam) and on environmental issues.
Chris Bramall is professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His latest book is Chinese Economic Development (Routledge, 2009).
David Bray is a senior lecturer in the department of sociology and social policy of the University of Sydney.
Kerry Brown is head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, leading the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN). His book, Hu Jintao: China's Silent Ruler, will be published early in 2012.
Jing Jing Chang is assistant professor of film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She completed her PhD in modern Chinese history and cinema studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include Chinese cinemas, cold war Hong Kong, and post-colonial studies.
Ja Ian Chong is assistant professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on Asia-Pacific security, Chinese foreign policy, nationalism, and international relations theory. Chong is author of Imposing States: External Intervention and the State Formation – China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1893–1952, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Richard Louis Edmonds is visiting professor at the Universität Duisburg-Essen and associate member at the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. His interests focus around environmental studies and historical geography.
Jonathan Hassid is a postdoctoral research fellow at the China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney. He received his PhD in political science in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his work concentrates on the politics of the Chinese news media.
Justin V. Hastings is a lecturer in the department of government and international relations, University of Sydney. His latest book is No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2010).
Timothy Hildebrandt is a fellow in the US–China Institute at the University of Southern California and teaches at USC's School of International Relations. His book, Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China, is under contract at Cambridge University Press.
Katie Hill is an established specialist in contemporary Chinese art with a degree in Chinese from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in the history of art from the University of Sussex. She is currently a consultant lecturer at Sotheby's Institute and director of a new consultancy, the Office of Contemporary Chinese Art (OCCA) which aims to represent artists from China.
Jonathan Howlett is a teaching fellow at Newcastle University and a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol. His soon to be completed thesis examines the transformation of Shanghai following the Communist takeover in 1949 with a focus on the elimination of the remaining British business presence.
Heather Inwood is assistant professor of modern Chinese cultural studies in the department of East Asian languages and literatures at the Ohio State University. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the “scene” of contemporary Chinese poetry, investigating how media and discourse shape literary production and community formation.
Harlan W. Jencks is a visiting scholar of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he specializes in non-proliferation and arms control issues. He has written extensively on international security affairs in Asia, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 1978. He retired as a Colonel from the United States Army Reserve in 1993, and retired from the University of California in 2007.
Sascha Klotzbücher is a visiting scholar at the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University. He specialises in studies of social policy, health, and governance in modern China and was a researcher on the project “Capacity-building for pastoral hospitals in Xinjiang (China)” at the University of Vienna. His latest monograph is Das Gesundheitswesen der VR China: Strukturen – Akteure – Dynamik (Peter Lang, 2006).
David M. Lampton is Hyman professor and director of China studies and dean of faculty at Johns Hopkins—SAIS. His most recent book is The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (University of California Press, 2008). He was named the inaugural winner of the Scalapino Prize in 2010.
Minqi Li received a PhD in economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002. He taught political science at York University, Canada from 2003 to 2006. He is currently associate professor of economics at University of Utah. His book The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy was published in 2009.
Wei Li is a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research interests include river basin water management, water pricing and sustainability indicators. She has engaged in research activities related to a variety of environmental issues in China.
Benjamin Liebman is the Robert L. Lieff professor of law and director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. He has written widely on the Chinese media and the courts. His current research focuses on tort litigation and medical disputes in China.
Adelyn Lim is a postdoctoral fellow with the modern China studies program in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. Her current research projects are on the women's movement in post-1997 Hong Kong, as well as the transnational framing of international agendas on women's rights in China. Her research interests are focused on political economy, social movements, gender, ethnicity, labour and migration in contemporary Chinese societies.
Kimberley Ens Manning is an associate professor of political science at Concordia University. She has published in the China Review, Modern China, and The China Quarterly, and is co-editor of the 2011 volume Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine. She is the principal investigator of a team project on gender non-conforming children and is embarking on a collaborative study of Sino-Tanzanian relations.
Rana Mitter is professor of the history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford. He has recently edited, with Aaron William Moore, a special edition of Modern Asian Studies on “World War II in China: Experience, Legacy, and Memory.”
Pál Nyíri is professor of history from an anthropological perspective at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His research focuses on contemporary migration from China. His most recent books are Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China (University of Washington Press, 2010) and, with Joana Breidenbach, Seeing Culture Everywhere: From Genocide to Consumer Habits (University of Washington Press, 2009).
Cormac Ó Gráda is professor of economics at University College Dublin. His most recent books are Famine: A Short History (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Igor Rogelja is a PhD student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His research interests include the politics of space and urban development in East Asia.
Graeme Smith is a postdoctoral fellow in the China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney. He is also a visiting fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. His current research project examines Chinese investment and migration in the Pacific. Dr Smith also holds a PhD in environmental chemistry, has written several guidebooks to China and Beijing, and is the winner of the 2010 Gordon White Prize.
Guojun Song is professor in environmental economics at Renmin University of China, Beijing. He has worked and published extensively in environmental research policy analysis, evaluation and design in China. His current research focuses on river basin water pollution control, China's energy saving and carbon emission reduction policies, and the water/air pollutant discharge permit system.
Daniela Stockmann is assistant professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She received a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MA in Chinese studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her research focuses on public opinion and political communication in China.
Jonathan Sullivan is a lecturer in the School of Politics and IR, and senior fellow at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham. He researches Taiwanese and Chinese politics and political communications. He is currently writing books on Taiwanese election campaigns and political uses of new and social media in China.
Dylan Sutherland was assistant director of development studies at Cambridge University and fellow of Wolfson college (2002–2004). He was also a lecturer in contemporary Chinese studies at Nottingham University (2007–2011). He currently works at Durham Business School, University of Durham.
Katherine Swancutt is an AHRC-ESRC research fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Since 1999, she has carried out fieldwork on the anthropology of religion across Inner Asia, working among Buryat Mongols and the Nuosu of Southwest China. She has a book in press (for 2012) with Berghahn, titled Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination, and several of her articles on shamanic religion appear in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Her new research explores the role of dreams among the Nuosu.
Malcolm Warner is professor and fellow emeritus, Wolfson College and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. His most recent book (as editor) is Confucian HRM in Greater China (Routledge, 2011). He is currently co-editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review.
Linda Wong is a professor in the department of public and social administration at City University of Hong Kong.
Teresa Wright is professor and chair of political science at California State University, Long Beach.
Rod Wye is a freelance commentator on Asia and a former analyst in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
Enhua Zhang is assistant professor in the Asian Studies program, department of languages, literatures, and cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amhurst. Her expertise is in modern Chinese literature, Chinese cinema and popular culture, Ming and Qing literature, and “critical theory on space and the uncanny.”
Le-Yin Zhang has studied various aspects of Chinese economic development, including but not limited to fiscal reform, FDI and urban development, since the late 1980s and teaches a postgraduate course (MSc. Urban Economic Development) at the Development Planning Unit, University College London.
Xueguang Zhou is Kowh-Ting Li professor in economic development, professor of sociology, and a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. He conducts research on institutional changes in China.
