Oscar Almén is a researcher at the department of government, Uppsala University. His research focuses on local governance, political participation, civil society and social movements.
Niki Alsford is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, and a research associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS University of London. Prior to moving to the Czech Republic, Niki Alsford was a senior teaching fellow in the department of history at SOAS. His most recent publications include Chronicling Formosa: Setting the Foundation for the Presbyterian Mission, 1865–1876 (2015) and A Barbarian's House by the River Tamsui: One House and the History of its Many Occupants, which was published with the Journal of Family History (2015).
Børge Bakken is currently affiliated with the department of political and social change, College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author of The Exemplary Society (Oxford University Press, 2000), Crime, Punishment and Policing in China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and Crime and the Chinese Dream (Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming). He has written extensively on Chinese society, crime and punishment.
Howard Chiang is assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Benjamin Elman is the Gordon Wu ’58 professor of Chinese studies, and professor of East Asian studies and history at Princeton University. He works at the intersection of several fields including history, philosophy, literature, religion, economics, politics and science.
Hualing Fu is a professor in the School of Law, University of Hong Kong. His research interest includes constitutional law and human rights, with a special focus on criminal justice system and media law in China. His recent work include National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong's Article 23 Under Scrutiny (Hong Kong University Press, 2005), co-edited with Carole Petersen and Simon Young, and The Struggle for Coherence: Constitutional Interpretation in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), co-edited with Lison Harris and Simon Young. He teaches corruption, human rights in China, and legal relations between Hong Kong and mainland China.
David Kurt Herold is assistant professor in the department of applied social sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on the Chinese internet, in particular its impact on offline society. His most recent publication is the co-edited volume China Online: Locating Society in Online Spaces (Routledge, 2014).
Tamara Jacka is professor in the department of political and social change, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. Her research interests are in socio-political change in contemporary China, especially as it relates to gender and rural–urban inequalities, and rural–urban migration. Her recent publications include Contemporary China: Society and Social Change (co-authored with Andrew Kipnis and Sally Sargeson, 2013), Women, Gender and Rural Development in China (co-edited with Sally Sargeson, 2011) and Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (2006).
Deborah Kaple teaches in the sociology department at Princeton University. She is a specialist on the Cold War, as well as Soviet and Chinese communism.
Scott L. Kastner is associate professor in the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2009), as well as recent articles in International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, and International Studies Quarterly.
Andreas Kuersten is a law clerk with the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) – the country's highest military court. He has previously held positions with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and both the US Navy and Air Force JAG Corps. The views expressed are solely his own and do not represent those of CAAF or the US government.
Anna Kuteleva is a PhD candidate at the department of political science at the University of Alberta. She is a research associate of the China Institute at the University of Alberta and is working on her PhD dissertation. Her research, located in a broad constructivist tradition of international relations, examines the nexus between politics and sociocultural contexts in international relations by drawing on the development of China's energy relations with Canada, Kazakhstan and Russia as case studies.
David M. Lampton is professor and director of China Studies at Johns Hopkins-SAIS and chairman of the Asia Foundation. His current book-length research project concerns the domestic and international politics of China's railroad infrastructure building efforts in Southeast Asia. His most recent book is Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping (University of California Press, 2014).
Wen-cheng Lin is a professor in the Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies and served as dean of College of Social Sciences from 2009 to 2015 at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan.
Jie Lu is assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington DC. He studies local governance, the political economy of institutional change, public opinion, and political participation. His regional expertise focuses on the Greater China Region and East Asia. His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Political Psychology, Politics & Society, Political Communication, Journal of Democracy, and other journals. He is the author of Varieties of Governance in China: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Beth E. Notar is associate professor of anthropology at Trinity College, in Hartford, CT. She is interested in the relationship between the symbolic, the material and place, and has conducted research on the transformation of Dali, Yunnan, through tourism, on the meanings of money in China, and on the rise of automobility there. She is the author of Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China.
Sally Sargeson is a senior fellow in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. Her recent publications include a book co-authored with Tamara Jacka and Andrew Kipnis, Contemporary China: Society and Social Change (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and articles in Critical Asian Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, The China Journal and Journal of Contemporary China.
David Schenker is the Aufzien fellow and director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Andrew Scobell is senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation and adjunct professor of Asian studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Susan L. Shirk is chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego.
Xin Sun is a career development fellow in the political economy of China at the University of Oxford. His research interests include land politics and local governance in China.
Istvan Tarrosy is associate professor of political science and director of the Africa Research Centre, department of political science and international studies, University of Pecs. His research interests are Afro-Asian relations, the East African community, African migrations and the foreign policies of Central and Eastern European countries towards sub-Saharan Africa. His latest publications include “Indonesian engagements with Africa and the revitalised ‘Spirit of Bandung’” in Emerging Powers in Africa: A New Wave in the Relationship? (edited by Justin Van der Merwe, Ian Taylor and Alexandra Arkhangelskaya, Palgrave, forthcoming); and articles in the International Journal of Area Studies and Society and Economy. He is co-editor of The African State in a Changing Global Context: Breakdowns and Transformations (LIT, 2010).
Andrew Wedeman is a professor of political science and director of China studies at Georgia State University. He has held visiting positions at Beijing University, the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Sino-American Studies Center, and Taiwan National University. He is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. His research focuses on the political economy of corruption in contemporary China.
Peter Zarrow is professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on the intellectual history of the late Qing and Republican periods, and his most recent book is Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902–1937.
