Contributors
ALEXSIA T. CHAN is associate professor of government at Hamilton College. She is the author of Beyond Coercion: The Politics of Inequality in China (forthcoming).
TIMOTHY CHEEK is professor and Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. He is author of The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History (2015) and Propaganda and Culture in Mao’s China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia (1997) and coeditor of The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives (2021) and Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China (2020).
CHIH-JOU JAY CHEN is director and professor at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association. He was president of the Taiwanese Sociological Association in 2018–19 and a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014–15.
DAVID DEMES is a PhD candidate in sociology at National Tsing Hua University and a lecturer at Tamkang University, Taiwan. As a freelance journalist based in Taipei, he covers the Sinosphere for various German media.
DENG KAI is a PhD candidate in sociology at National Tsing Hua University. His research focuses on social movements and state-society relations in contemporary China.
ASHLEY ESAREY is associate professor of political science at the University of Alberta. He is coauthor, with Hsiu-lien Lu, of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power (2014) and coeditor of Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization (2020) and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State (2020).
RONGBIN HAN is associate professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia. He is author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience (2018) and coauthor of Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online (2023).
TONY TAI-TING LIU is assistant professor of international relations at National Chung Hsing University. He was secretary general of the Taiwanese Political Science Association in 2021–23 and a visiting scholar at the Stimson Center in 2022.
MUSAPIR is a pseudonym for a Uyghur scholar based in North America.
KEVIN J. O’BRIEN is Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Reform without Liberalization: China’s National People’s Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change (1990) and coauthor of Rightful Resistance in Rural China (2006).
ANDREW WEDEMAN is professor of political science at Georgia State University. He is author of From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China (2003) and Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China (2012).
MARTIN KING WHYTE is John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, emeritus, at Harvard University. He recently published Remembering Ezra Vogel (coeditor, with Mary C. Brinton, 2022).
GERDA WIELANDER is professor of Chinese studies at the University of Westminster. She is author of Christian Values in Communist China (2013) and coeditor of Chinese Discourses on Happiness (2018).
BRANTLY WOMACK is senior faculty fellow at the Miller Center and emeritus professor of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. His publications include Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order (2023), Asymmetry and International Relationships (2016), China among Unequals: Asymmetric Foreign Relationships in Asia (2010), and China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (2006).