Contributors

Elanah Uretsky is medical anthropologist and Associate Professor of International and Global Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV/AIDS in...

Elanah Uretsky is medical anthropologist and Associate Professor of International and Global Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV/AIDS in Post-Mao China (Stanford University Press 2016).

Davide Vacatello is a researcher based in Rome, focusing on online public opinion in China. He studied in China at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sichuan University, and Chinese University of...

Davide Vacatello is a researcher based in Rome, focusing on online public opinion in China. He studied in China at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sichuan University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong’s School of Journalism and Communication. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in Chinese studies at Sapienza University of Rome. He is passionate about Chinese politics and society, the Internet, and new media. Vacatello is the co-founder of Chinese Doodles.

Ali Vaez is Crisis Group’s Iran Project Director. Consulting closely with all sides in the nuclear negotiations for the past few years as our former Iran Senior Analyst, he led Crisis Group’s efforts...

Ali Vaez is Crisis Group’s Iran Project Director. Consulting closely with all sides in the nuclear negotiations for the past few years as our former Iran Senior Analyst, he led Crisis Group’s efforts in helping to bridge the gaps between Iran and the P5+1 and is renowned as one of the foremost experts on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. Before joining Crisis Group, he headed the Iran project at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C. Trained as a scientist, Vaez has more than a decade of experience in journalism. He has written widely on Iranian affairs and is a regular contributor to mainstream media outlets. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University from 2008 to 2010 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Geneva and a Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Tomáš Valášek is the current Director of Carnegie Europe. Before this, he was the Permanent Representative of the Slavic Republic, the President of the Central European Policy Institute in Bratislava...

Tomáš Valášek is the current Director of Carnegie Europe. Before this, he was the Permanent Representative of the Slavic Republic, the President of the Central European Policy Institute in Bratislava, Director of Foreign Policy and Defense for European Reform in London, the founder and Director of the Brussels office of the World Security Institute, and the Political Director and head of the Security and Defense Policy Division at the Slovak Ministry of Defense.

Hans van de Ven did his undergraduate studies in Sinology at Leiden University, then went to Harvard University for his PhD in modern Chinese history, followed by a UC Berkeley Postdoctoral...

Hans van de Ven did his undergraduate studies in Sinology at Leiden University, then went to Harvard University for his PhD in modern Chinese history, followed by a UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has been at Cambridge University ever since. His most recent book is Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China (Columbia University Press, 2014). Van de Ven's first book, From Friend to Comrade: the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), was awarded the Philip Lilienthal Prize of the University of California Press for best first book in Asian Studies.A British Academy Research Readership made it possible for van de Ven to spend three years away from teaching. One of these he spent as a Visiting Scholar at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. More recently, he was a Fellow for a...

Simone van Nieuwenhuizen is a researcher at the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. She has held research and project roles at the University of Sydney China...

Simone van Nieuwenhuizen is a researcher at the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. She has held research and project roles at the University of Sydney China Studies Centre, the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, and the Lowy Institute for International Policy. She holds a Master of International Relations in Diplomacy from Peking University, completed entirely in Chinese, and a Bachelor of Arts in Languages from the University of Sydney.Van Nieuwenhuizen is co-author of China and the New Maoists (Zed Books, 2016) with Kerry Brown. Her research interests include Chinese foreign policy and diplomacy, and China-Middle East relations. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and Arabic, and is studying Russian.

John S. Van Oudenaren is a program officer at the Asia Society Policy Institute. Previously, he was a research assistant at the U.S. National Defense University’s College of International Security...

John S. Van Oudenaren is a program officer at the Asia Society Policy Institute. Previously, he was a research assistant at the U.S. National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs, where he supported counterterrorism and regional studies programs, and researched various issues in the contemporary security environment. He writes on contemporary Chinese politics and East Asian security issues. His articles have been published in the US Army War College Quarterly-Parameters, Asian Affairs: An American Review, The Diplomat, and The American Interest. He holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, and a B.A. in History and Chinese from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Shannon Van Sant has directed and filmed 18 documentaries, reporting throughout Africa and Asia for CBS News, The Economist, the PBS NewsHour, and PBS television. In 2012, she was honored with a...

Shannon Van Sant has directed and filmed 18 documentaries, reporting throughout Africa and Asia for CBS News, The Economist, the PBS NewsHour, and PBS television. In 2012, she was honored with a Human Rights Award from Amnesty International and the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong for her work. Her stories include extensive reporting on Chinese investment in Zambia, Uganda, South Sudan, South Africa, and the Comoros and the hunt by U.S. forces for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. In 2011, she filmed the journey of North Korean refugees escaping through China and Southeast Asia. Previously, Van Sant spent two years as a documentary filmmaker at CCTV, Chinese state-run television. She filmed 11 documentaries for CCTV on Chinese government policies, reporting from more than 20 of China's 33 provinces.

Cobus van Staden is the co-host of the weekly China in Africa Podcast, produced by the China Africa Project.Van Staden is currently the Senior China-Africa Researcher at the South African Institute...

Cobus van Staden is the co-host of the weekly China in Africa Podcast, produced by the China Africa Project.Van Staden is currently the Senior China-Africa Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in Johannesburg, South Africa’s leading international policy think tank. (SAIIA is not affiliated with the China Africa Project and does not fund, influence, or provide material support.) He completed his Ph.D. in Japanese Studies and Media Studies at the University of Nagoya in Japan in 2008. He expanded his work to comparisons between Japan and China during postdoctoral positions at the University of Stellenbosch and as the SARCHI Chair on African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg, before joining the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2013. He started in 1998 as a TV reporter for the South...

Barry van Wyk has been Project Coordinator of the China-Africa Reporting Project at Wits Journalism since June 2015. In 2006, he started Chinese language studies in Tianjin, China, and in 2008...

Barry van Wyk has been Project Coordinator of the China-Africa Reporting Project at Wits Journalism since June 2015. In 2006, he started Chinese language studies in Tianjin, China, and in 2008 started working as a China-Africa business consultant in Beijing. In 2012, he was appointed project manager at Danwei, a research firm analysing the Chinese media and Internet, also based in Beijing. Van Wyk holds a Master’s degree in South African history from the University of Pretoria, and a second Master’s in Economic History from the London School of Economics

Agnès Varda is a filmmaker and photographer. She is a Professor of Film and Documentaries at the European Graduate School. She studied at the École du Louvre with a focus on art history and...

Agnès Varda is a filmmaker and photographer. She is a Professor of Film and Documentaries at the European Graduate School. She studied at the École du Louvre with a focus on art history and photography at the École des Beaux-Arts. She then went on to work as a photographer at the Théâtre National Populaire in Paris.Varda’s first feature-length film, La Pointe Courte (1954), was an early anticipation of the French New Wave and was well-received by the French cinema community. Her other major films include Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985), The Gleaners & I (2000), and The Beaches of Agnès (2008), among others.Varda received the 2002 French Academy prize, Prix René Clair, for her overall cinematographic work. In 2009, she was given the highest French decoration: the National Order of the Legion of Honour. Varda is the author of several books and a contributor to LEAP...

Christopher Vassallo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and an affiliated researcher on the Chinese economy at the Asia Society’s Center for China Analysis. He was previously an...

Christopher Vassallo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and an affiliated researcher on the Chinese economy at the Asia Society’s Center for China Analysis. He was previously an associate at Blackstone, where he produced original analysis on geopolitical and macroeconomic issues related to China. He has served as a researcher at the Harvard Belfer Center and Asia Society Policy Institute, and his work has been published by The Marathon Initiative, The Diplomat, The US-China Perception Monitor, and The National Interest. Christopher holds a B.A. in History magna cum laude from Harvard University and a M.A. in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, where he studied as a Schwarzman Scholar.

Sebastian Veg is a Research Professor (Directeur d’Études) at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Science, Paris, and an Honorary Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His...

Sebastian Veg is a Research Professor (Directeur d’Études) at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Science, Paris, and an Honorary Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His interests are in 20th century Chinese intellectual history, literature, and political debates, as well as intellectual and cultural debates in Hong Kong. He has written about and translated Lu Xun, as well as contemporary writers like Yu Jian and Dung Kai-cheung. He is presently working on a project on Chinese intellectuals’ new role after 1989.

Anita Venanzi is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where she is an awardee of the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme. Her research focus is currently on transnational...

Anita Venanzi is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where she is an awardee of the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme. Her research focus is currently on transnational volunteering NGOs and their branches in Hong Kong and mainland China.She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies with a major in Sinology and a minor in Tibetology, and a Master’s degree with a double major in Intercultural Studies and Social Work whose related dissertation was about the regulations concerning Chinese official household registration.Prior to enrolling in her Ph.D. program, Venanzi worked as a freelance translator for research institutes and international legal firms while volunteering as translator, trainer, and project coordinator for NGOs and non-profit media platforms.In addition to Sinology, transnationalism, and volunteering, her research interests include: advocacy...

Pierre Vimont is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe. His research focuses on the European Neighborhood Policy, transatlantic relations, and French foreign policy. Prior to joining Carnegie, Vimont...

Pierre Vimont is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe. His research focuses on the European Neighborhood Policy, transatlantic relations, and French foreign policy. Prior to joining Carnegie, Vimont was the first Executive Secretary-General of the European External Action Service (EEAS), from December 2010 to March 2015. During his 38-year diplomatic career with the French foreign service, he served as Ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2010, Ambassador to the European Union from 1999 to 2002, and Chief of Staff to three former French foreign ministers. He holds the title of Ambassador of France, a dignity bestowed for life to only a few French career diplomats.

Ezra F. Vogel is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan in 1950 and serving two years in the U.S. Army, he studied sociology in...

Ezra F. Vogel is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan in 1950 and serving two years in the U.S. Army, he studied sociology in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. in 1958. He then went to Japan for two years to study the Japanese language and conduct research interviews with middle-class families. In 1960-1961, he was an Assistant Professor at Yale University, and from 1961 to 1964 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, studying Chinese language and history. He remained at Harvard, becoming a lecturer in 1964 and, in 1967, a professor. He retired from teaching on June 30, 2000.Vogel succeeded John Fairbank to become the second Director (1972-1977) of Harvard’s East Asian Research Center and Chairman of the Council for East Asian Studies (1977-1980). He was Director of the Program on U.S.-...

David Volodzko is a writer for The Diplomat, where he covers topics related to Chinese politics and society. He has lived in Asia for more than ten years (primarily in China, India, Japan, and South...

David Volodzko is a writer for The Diplomat, where he covers topics related to Chinese politics and society. He has lived in Asia for more than ten years (primarily in China, India, Japan, and South Korea) and his writings cover a wide range of topics, including animal cruelty, economics, psychology, education, travel, cuisine, and philosophy.Volodzko’s work has been published with the China Policy Institute, where he wrote about the history of major themes in Chinese propaganda, and in GlobalPost, where he covered China’s illegal logging industry. He has also written for the South China Morning Post, regarding the effect of globalization on Chinese language education, and for The Jamestown Foundation, concerning China-Holy See relations. His work has also appeared in openDemocracy, The Washington Monthly, and Z Magazine. He is a former lecturer at Soongshil University and a graduate of...

Julia Voo was Research Director for China Cyber Policy at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where she led a Track II Dialogue between the U.S. and China on cybersecurity...

Julia Voo was Research Director for China Cyber Policy at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where she led a Track II Dialogue between the U.S. and China on cybersecurity between 2018-2020. Before Harvard, Julia lived in Beijing for seven years with stints at the EU Delegation to China, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, and British Embassy, and she has spent time at the UK’s Cabinet Office.Voo is currently a Cyber Fellow at Belfer, where she leads the team behind Belfer’s National Cyber Power Index (NCPI). The NCPI is the first index to systematically measure comprehensive cyber power for 30 countries. Voo has affiliations with the Future of Humanity Institute (Oxford), the Hague Program for Cyber Norms (Leiden), and the China-Africa Research Initiative (Johns Hopkins).Her research examines geotech strategy including the Digital Silk Road, industrial...

Irène Wabiwa is based in Johannesburg, where she is a Forest Campaign Manager for Greenpeace Africa. She studied at the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Irène Wabiwa is based in Johannesburg, where she is a Forest Campaign Manager for Greenpeace Africa. She studied at the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Patrick Wack is a self-taught photographer currently based in Moscow. He is the co-founder of the Inland documentary cooperative. Wack worked for international editorial and commercial clients in...

Patrick Wack is a self-taught photographer currently based in Moscow. He is the co-founder of the Inland documentary cooperative. Wack worked for international editorial and commercial clients in China from 2006 to 2017. He has also worked on documentary projects addressing topics such as repression of minorities, urban mutations, post-conflict reconstruction, and environmental issues. His projects have been published in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Geo, The Sunday Times, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. Previously, Wack had a career in sports and studied Economics and foreign languages in France, the U.S., and Sweden. He grew up in the suburbs of Paris.

Samuel Wade is Deputy Editor of China Digital Times, and holds an M.A. in Sinology from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Samuel Wade is Deputy Editor of China Digital Times, and holds an M.A. in Sinology from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

David Vance Wagner is Director for Strategic Partnerships, China, at the Energy Foundation. Wagner has worked on U.S.-China energy and environmental cooperation for over a decade. Before joining the...

David Vance Wagner is Director for Strategic Partnerships, China, at the Energy Foundation. Wagner has worked on U.S.-China energy and environmental cooperation for over a decade. Before joining the Energy Foundation staff, he served as the China Counsellor in the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State, where he led U.S.-China dialogue and collaboration on climate change and clean energy. Prior to joining the State Department, Wagner co-led the China program at the International Council on Clean Transportation and served as the first and only foreigner at China’s national vehicle emission policy research center under the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Wagner earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford...

Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Previously, he served as Chair of the Department of Sociology, as Director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and as Director of the Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences.A political sociologist, Walder has long specialized on the sources of conflict, stability, and change in communist regimes and their successor states. His publications on China have ranged from the political and economic organization of the Mao era to changing patterns of stratification, social mobility, and political conflict in the post-Mao era. Another focus of his research has been on the political economy of Soviet-type economies...

Arthur Waldron is a China specialist who teaches international relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his A.B. in 1971 and his Ph.D in 1981, both from Harvard. Overseas he has...

Arthur Waldron is a China specialist who teaches international relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his A.B. in 1971 and his Ph.D in 1981, both from Harvard. Overseas he has studied in France, the former USSR, Taiwan, and Japan. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University starting in 1981 and taught there until 1991. Thereafter, he was professor of strategy at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI and adjunct professor at Brown University, until moving to Philadelphia in 1997. Professor Waldron is the author of three monographs: The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Cambridge University Press, 1989), How the Peace Was Lost (Hoover Institution Press, 1992), and From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point 1924-1925 (Cambridge University Press, 1993), as well as editor of or contributor to more than twenty other books. Professor Waldron has...

The late Kim Wall was a Swedish journalist based between New York and Beijing. She wrote about popular culture, gender, foreign policy, and identity. Her work was featured in publications including...

The late Kim Wall was a Swedish journalist based between New York and Beijing. She wrote about popular culture, gender, foreign policy, and identity. Her work was featured in publications including Harpers, The Guardian, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Vice Magazine, and TIME. She earned a B.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Master’s degrees in Journalism and International Affairs from Columbia University. She died tragically in August 2017. 

Jeremy L. Wallace is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. He studies urbanization, regime...

Jeremy L. Wallace is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. He studies urbanization, regime stability, and data quality in non-democracies, with a particular emphasis on China. He is the author of the book Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China (Oxford, 2014). Wallace received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.

James Wan is the London-based Editor of the Royal African Society’s African Arguments website. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at Think Africa Press where he reported extensively on China-Africa...

James Wan is the London-based Editor of the Royal African Society’s African Arguments website. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at Think Africa Press where he reported extensively on China-Africa issues. Wan is a former fellow of the Wits University China-Africa Reporting Project and, in 2014, was awarded a grant to conduct an investigation in Uganda. He describes himself as having “Chinese blood, Mauritian heritage, and British sensibilities.” A complete profile of Wan is available on his portfolio website.

Jingyu Wan is originally from Jiangxi, China. She is a multimedia journalist and holds a master’s degree in Multimedia Photography & Design from Syracuse University. Her work mainly focuses...

Jingyu Wan is originally from Jiangxi, China. She is a multimedia journalist and holds a master’s degree in Multimedia Photography & Design from Syracuse University. Her work mainly focuses on minority groups and has been published in the People’s Daily, Fotomen China, and elsewhere. Wan is also an alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

Wan Man is a Singapore-based documentary film and photography director who travels extensively throughout the region. Recently he filmed, directed, and was the showrunner for Borderlands on CNA, a...

Wan Man is a Singapore-based documentary film and photography director who travels extensively throughout the region. Recently he filmed, directed, and was the showrunner for Borderlands on CNA, a four-part documentary about people living on borders in Asia. The series was nominated for Best Documentary Series in the upcoming 2020 Asian Television Awards. He also filmed and directed Lionheart, a feature-length documentary on lion conservation in Africa for the History Channel. Over nearly two decades, Wan has shot and directed projects for the Discovery Channel, Arte France, Animal Planet, and BBC Worldwide. He is also an Expert Level 1 Krav Maga instructor with Krav Maga Global, and regularly teaches the Israeli fighting, self-defense, and third-party VIP protection system.

Maya Wang is a senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch. Her research interests span a wide range of topics in China, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet. She has written extensively on the use of...

Maya Wang is a senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch. Her research interests span a wide range of topics in China, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet. She has written extensively on the use of torture, arbitrary detention, human rights defenders, civil society, the use of technology in mass surveillance, disability rights, and women’s rights in China. You can follow her on Twitter at @wang_maya.

Wang Jisi is President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University, and professor at the School of International Studies, Peking University. He has been a member of the...

Wang Jisi is President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University, and professor at the School of International Studies, Peking University. He has been a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Foreign Ministry of China since October 2008, and is honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies. He is currently a Global Scholar at Princeton University (2011-2015).After working as a laborer in the Chinese countryside in 1968-78, Wang entered Peking University in 1978 and obtained an MA degree there in 1983. He taught in Peking University’s Department of International Politics (1983-91), and then served as director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1992-2005). He was dean of the School of International Studies, Peking University (2005-2013). He was concurrently president of the...

Wang Feng has worked for the Financial Times as Editor in Chief of FTChinese.com since April 2015. Prior to the FT, he was the editor of scmp.com, the online edition of the South China Morning Post,...

Wang Feng has worked for the Financial Times as Editor in Chief of FTChinese.com since April 2015. Prior to the FT, he was the editor of scmp.com, the online edition of the South China Morning Post, after moving to Hong Kong from Beijing in 2012. He was the founding editor of cn.reuters.com, the Chinese language financial news site of Reuters, and Editor in Charge of Reuters Chinese News service. He had also worked as a journalists for various Chinese news organisations including Caijing magazine in Beijing. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.   

Mei Wang received her Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University in 2017. Wang's interests lie in U.S.-China relations. She did her undergraduate degree in Spanish Literature at...

Mei Wang received her Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University in 2017. Wang's interests lie in U.S.-China relations. She did her undergraduate degree in Spanish Literature at Beijing Language and Culture University. She worked as an intern at the Asia Society Global Initiative from October 2017 until January 2018. A native of Xi'an, Wang speaks Mandarin, English, and Spanish.

Wang Lixiong is a Chinese writer and scholar. His political prophecy novel Yellow Peril, published in Chinese in 1991, was ranked forty-first in Yazhou Zhoukan’s “100 Most Influential Chinese Novels...

Wang Lixiong is a Chinese writer and scholar. His political prophecy novel Yellow Peril, published in Chinese in 1991, was ranked forty-first in Yazhou Zhoukan’s “100 Most Influential Chinese Novels of the Twentieth Century.”Since the 1990s, his writing has often centered around the politics of ethnicity in China. Wang is the author of China Tidal Wave (translated from the original Chinese to English by Anton Platero, BRILL/Global Oriental, 2008), and The Struggle for Tibet, co-authored with Tsering Shakya (Verso, 2009), as well as many other books in Chinese.Wang was a member of the Chinese Writers Association until his resignation in 2001 in protest of the group’s restrictions on free expression by its members. In 2009, he received the Dalai Lama’s Light of Truth Award. He resides in Beijing.

Wang Tao is a nonresident scholar in the Energy and Climate Program based at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. Linking the work of Carnegie’s programs in Beijing and its global centers...

Wang Tao is a nonresident scholar in the Energy and Climate Program based at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. Linking the work of Carnegie’s programs in Beijing and its global centers in Washington, Moscow, Beirut, and Brussels, his research focuses on China’s climate and energy policy, with particular attention to unconventional oil and natural gas, transportation, electric vehicles, and international climate negotiation.Prior to joining Carnegie, Wang was program manager at World Wildlife Fund China, working in the Climate and Energy Program on scenario analysis, energy policy, and climate change adaptation. From 2006 to 2009, he was a core researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Science and Technology Policy Research Department at the University of Sussex.Wang is the author of numerous articles in the journals Climate Policy, Energy Policy...

Wang Yizhou is Deputy Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University.

Wang Yizhou is Deputy Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University.

Stephanie Wang is a senior program officer at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), based in New York. She helps to advance WCS global climate change mitigation programs that reduce emissions from...

Stephanie Wang is a senior program officer at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), based in New York. She helps to advance WCS global climate change mitigation programs that reduce emissions from deforestation and achieve benefits for biodiversity and local communities. She has also supported the establishment of the WCS China ivory demand reduction program.Prior to joining WCS, Wang worked in human rights research and advocacy across a broad range of issues focused on China and the Asia-Pacific region, including as a Research Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Wang has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and B.A.s in History and Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Alex Wang is a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, and a leading expert on environmental governance and Chinese legal reform. He was previously a Senior Attorney for the...

Alex Wang is a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, and a leading expert on environmental governance and Chinese legal reform. He was previously a Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) based in Beijing and the founding director of NRDC’s China Environmental Law & Governance Project. In this capacity, he worked with China’s government agencies, legal community, and environmental groups to improve environmental rule of law and strengthen the role of the public in environmental protection. He helped to establish NRDC’s Beijing office in 2006. He has been a visiting faculty member at the UC, Berkeley School of Law.Wang was a Fulbright Fellow to China from 2004-2005. Before this, he was an attorney at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York City, where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, securities...

Yaqiu Wang is the Research Director for China at Freedom House, leading the organization’s research on human rights issues within China and the Chinese government’s global influence. Previously, she...

Yaqiu Wang is the Research Director for China at Freedom House, leading the organization’s research on human rights issues within China and the Chinese government’s global influence. Previously, she was Senior China Researcher at Human Rights Watch. She has a Master’s degree in International Affairs from George Washington University. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, China Brief, and elsewhere.

Wang He is an independent photojournalist based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Previously, he worked at Chutian Metropolis Daily as a daily news photographer for seven years. Wang has covered a wide range...

Wang He is an independent photojournalist based in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Previously, he worked at Chutian Metropolis Daily as a daily news photographer for seven years. Wang has covered a wide range of breaking news as well as feature stories, including the Sichuan Earthquake and Beijing Olympics in 2008. His photo essay “A Migrant Workers’s Return Home Trip” received third place in the Picture Of the Year International (POYi) Feature Picture Story category in 2018.

Bo Wang (born 1982, Chongqing) is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. He holds a Master’s in theoretical physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a Master’s in Fine Art from the School...

Bo Wang (born 1982, Chongqing) is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. He holds a Master’s in theoretical physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a Master’s in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York. His works have been exhibited internationally, at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, and the Times Museum in Guangzhou, among many others. He received a fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013 and is an attendee of the Berlinale Talents program in the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.

Di Wang is a feminist researcher and advocate from China. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin−Madison, and the Scholar in Residence of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ...

Di Wang is a feminist researcher and advocate from China. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin−Madison, and the Scholar in Residence of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York. She has worked on projects that evaluate the impact of law on women’s and LGBTQ rights in China and in the U.S. with organizations such as PILnet, Gender Equality Advocacy and Action Network (GEAAN), and the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Wang Yongmei is a practicing lawyer at Beijing Huayi Law Firm, where she focuses on public interest law in different areas. Before joining the law firm in 2016, she was a Program Manager and Senior...

Wang Yongmei is a practicing lawyer at Beijing Huayi Law Firm, where she focuses on public interest law in different areas. Before joining the law firm in 2016, she was a Program Manager and Senior Legal Officer in PILnet’s Beijing office for four years. She was responsible for working with PILnet’s partners to design and implement projects and provide advice and training. Prior to PILnet, Wang worked at China Law Development Consultants (CLD) as a program officer for more than three years. She is a licensed Chinese lawyer who previously worked for domestic and international law firms for more than six years. Wang obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Law from Xiamen University and her Master’s degree in Maritime Law from Nottingham University (U.K.). She is currently a Humphrey Fellow at American University in Washington, D.C.

Wang Feng is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Demography at Fudan University in Shanghai. He has done extensive research on...

Wang Feng is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Demography at Fudan University in Shanghai. He has done extensive research on global social and demographic changes, comparative population and social history, and social inequality, with a focus on China. He is the author of multiple books, and his research articles have been published in venues including Population and Development Review, Demography, Science, The Journal of the Economics of Aging, The Journal of Asian Studies, The China Journal, and International Migration Review. He has served on expert panels for the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, and as a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy. His work and views have appeared in media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial...

Wang Dan is a democracy advocate and the Founder of Dialogue China. He was a leader of the student-led democracy movement in 1989. Following the June 4 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square, he...

Wang Dan is a democracy advocate and the Founder of Dialogue China. He was a leader of the student-led democracy movement in 1989. Following the June 4 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square, he was held in police custody and imprisoned off and on until the Chinese government exiled him to the United States in 1998.Wang taught at National Chengchi University and other schools in Taiwan from 2009 to 2017. He attended Peking University and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Fei Wang is a Washington, D.C.-based energy and environment professional. She is also a contributor to Tea Leaf Nation. Wang holds a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, and graduated from...

Fei Wang is a Washington, D.C.-based energy and environment professional. She is also a contributor to Tea Leaf Nation. Wang holds a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, and graduated from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs with a Master’s degree concentrating in energy and the environment.

Tom Wang hails from central China, where he studied multimedia journalism. He has always been a music and film lover and while studying in University discovered documentary film. His interests...

Tom Wang hails from central China, where he studied multimedia journalism. He has always been a music and film lover and while studying in University discovered documentary film. His interests include urbanization, rural development, water resources, and other environmental issues. Wang currently lives in Beijing, where he works on documentary projects.

Afra Wang is pursuing her Master’s degree in International History at Columbia University. She previously interned with The Journal of Asian Studies and ChinaFile where she gained rich academic and...

Afra Wang is pursuing her Master’s degree in International History at Columbia University. She previously interned with The Journal of Asian Studies and ChinaFile where she gained rich academic and online publishing experience. Wang is an aspiring writer and scholar. Her works have appeared in The New York Times Chinese and Initium Media. Wang has strong interests in nationalism, U.S.-China relations, popular culture and Hong Kong politics. Her current research is on Sino-British negotiations from 1982 to 1984. She has also engaged in few ongoing pieces of research on China's One Child Policy, the Walt Disney Company, and China's nuclear normalization in the 1950s. 

Dan Washburn is Managing Editor at Asia Society in New York. He is currently working on a book about the development of golf in China for Oneworld Publications in London. From 2002 to 2011, Dan...

Dan Washburn is Managing Editor at Asia Society in New York. He is currently working on a book about the development of golf in China for Oneworld Publications in London. From 2002 to 2011, Dan worked as a freelance writer based out of Shanghai. His work has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, ESPN.com, Golf World, Golf Digest, and other publications. In 2005, he founded the popular website Shanghaiist.com.

Abigail Washburn is a Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, and clawhammer banjo player based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose music meshes traditional Appalachian and Chinese folk tunes. Washburn’s...

Abigail Washburn is a Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, and clawhammer banjo player based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose music meshes traditional Appalachian and Chinese folk tunes. Washburn’s musical projects range from her string band, Uncle Earl, to her bilingual releases “Song of the Traveling Daughter” (2005) and “City of Refuge” (2011), to the mind-bending “chamber roots” sound of the Sparrow Quartet (featuring Béla Fleck, Casey Driessen, and Ben Sollee), to Afterquake, her fundraiser CD for Sichuan earthquake victims. Her most recent record with her husband, Béla Fleck, won a 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. Washburn is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has regularly toured in China, including a month-long tour of China’s Silk Road supported by grants from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Washburn is a TED Fellow and gave a talk at the 2012 TED Convention in Long Beach titled “...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.  His most recent books, both published in 2016, are, as author, Eight Juxtapositions: China...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.  His most recent books, both published in 2016, are, as author, Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin), and, as editor, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (Oxford).  An Associate Fellow of the Asia Society who belongs to and has served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, he is Editor of The Journal of Asian Studies, Advising Editor for Asia for The Los Angeles Review of Books, and a member of Dissent magazine’s Editorial Board. His commentaries and reviews have appeared in many general interest periodicals, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Internazionale, TIME, Slate, The American Scholar, Foreign Affairs, Foreign...

Jonathan Watts is a former East Asia correspondent for The Guardian, who specialized in environment and development issues in China and the wider region during his time in Beijing from 2003 to 2012...

Jonathan Watts is a former East Asia correspondent for The Guardian, who specialized in environment and development issues in China and the wider region during his time in Beijing from 2003 to 2012. He is the author of the eco-travelogue When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change and became closely involved in media freedom issues during a spell as President of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China. A former Tokyo correspondent (1996-2003), he has also covered events in Mongolia and on the Korean peninsula, as well as reporting on the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Watts is currently based in Rio de Janeiro and working as Latin American correspondent for The Guardian. He is a self-proclaimed amateur llamologist.

Anouk Wear (華穆清) is a Research and Policy Advisor at Hong Kong Watch, based in Washington, D.C. She is from Hong Kong and the U.S. After obtaining her B.A. in Social Anthropology from the University...

Anouk Wear (華穆清) is a Research and Policy Advisor at Hong Kong Watch, based in Washington, D.C. She is from Hong Kong and the U.S. After obtaining her B.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and her L.L.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University, she worked as a professional researcher and translator on topics related to international law and human rights in the China region. Wear focuses on cultural rights, freedom of expression, digital rights, labor rights, and democracy, and she works in English, French, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Graham Webster is a research scholar at the Stanford University Cyber Policy Center, where he is editor-in-chief of the DigiChina Project. DigiChina is a collaborative project to translate,...

Graham Webster is a research scholar at the Stanford University Cyber Policy Center, where he is editor-in-chief of the DigiChina Project. DigiChina is a collaborative project to translate, contextualize, and analyze Chinese digital policy documents and discourse.From 2012 to 2017, Webster worked for Yale Law School as a Senior Fellow and lecturer responsible for the Paul Tsai China Center’s Track 2 dialogues between the United States and China, co-teaching seminars on contemporary China and Chinese law and policy, leading programming on cyberspace in U.S.-China relations, and writing extensively on the South China Sea and the law of the sea. While with Yale, he was a Yale-affiliated fellow with the Yale Information Society Project, a visiting scholar at China Foreign Affairs University, and a Transatlantic Digital Debates fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute and New America...

Andrew Wedeman is a professor of political science at Georgia State University and has written extensively on the political economy of corruption in China. His most recent book is Double Paradox:...

Andrew Wedeman is a professor of political science at Georgia State University and has written extensively on the political economy of corruption in China. His most recent book is Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China (Cornell University Press, 2012).

Wei Peh T’i (often published under the name Betty Peh-Ti Wei) received an AB from Bryn Mawr College, an MA from New York University, and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. She is an Honorary...

Wei Peh T’i (often published under the name Betty Peh-Ti Wei) received an AB from Bryn Mawr College, an MA from New York University, and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. She is an Honorary Institute Fellow for the Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong and an Honorary Professor in the Institute of Qing Studies at Renmin University in Beijing. Wei is a Founding Member of the Bryn Mawr College International Council. She served on the Board of Governors of the Chinese International School in Hong Kong and the Board of Governors of the Y.K. Pao School in Shanghai.Wei's full-length books include East Asia History 1870-1952 (Oxford University Press, 1981); Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China (Oxford University Press, 1987) and Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849: The Life and Work of a Major Scholar-Official in Nineteenth-Century China before the Opium War...

Jan Weidenfeld is Head of Research of the European China Policy Unit at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). He works on European-China relations, transatlantic China policy, and cyber...

Jan Weidenfeld is Head of Research of the European China Policy Unit at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). He works on European-China relations, transatlantic China policy, and cyber diplomacy. Prior to joining MERICS, Weidenfeld was an analyst with the RAND Corporation, where he led a wide range of European and transatlantic foreign and security policy research efforts for E.U. institutions, agencies, and member states. Over the course of his career, he served in policy-making and research positions with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the OSCE, the E.U. Delegation to the International Organisations in Vienna, the European Union Institute for Security Studies, and the European Centre for Development Policy Management. Weidenfeld holds an M.Phil. degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a Gates Scholar.

Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, Oranges & Peanuts for Sale, and the forthcoming The Ghosts of Birds. His political articles are...

Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, Oranges & Peanuts for Sale, and the forthcoming The Ghosts of Birds. His political articles are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is the current translator of the poetry of Bei Dao, the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, and the general editor of a series, Calligrams: Writings from and on China, co-published by Chinese University of Hong Kong Press and New York Review Books. He is also the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American literature are The Poems of Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions. His work has been translated into over 30 languages.

Emily Weinstein is a Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), focused on Chinese innovation and domestic S&T policies and development. Before...

Emily Weinstein is a Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), focused on Chinese innovation and domestic S&T policies and development. Before joining CSET, Weinstein was an Analyst at Pointe Bello, a strategic intelligence firm, where she conducted research on Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Lawfare, the University of Nottingham’s Asia Dialogue, Global Taiwan Brief, Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, and the Project 2049 Institute’s Asia Eye Blog. She holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan.

Bob Wekesa is a Ph.D. candidate in International Communications at Communication University of China and a Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand University in South Africa. He...

Bob Wekesa is a Ph.D. candidate in International Communications at Communication University of China and a Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand University in South Africa. He sits on the steering committee of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network. He is a founding research coordinator at the African Communication Research Centre at Communication University of China. Wekesa graduated with a Bachelors of Education degree in English Linguistics and Literature from the University of Nairobi, Kenya and an M.A. in International Communications from Communication University of China (with distinction). He was a Commonwealth Press Union fellow in the UK in 2002. His journalism experience spans reporting, editing, and leadership across multiple media platforms. In addition to numerous articles, Wekesa is the author of two books and his third, on China and...

Wen Yunchao, more commonly known by his online alias “Bei Feng,” launched a series of online campaigns in support of human rights and against Internet censorship. He was awarded the French Republic’s...

Wen Yunchao, more commonly known by his online alias “Bei Feng,” launched a series of online campaigns in support of human rights and against Internet censorship. He was awarded the French Republic’s 2010 Human Rights Prize by the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, in recognition of his efforts and contribution to promoting China's human rights movements through social media. Wen is based in New York.

Xiaoxue Weng is a Researcher at Natural Resources Group. Her research focuses on natural resources governance, the informal economy, and the evolving role of Chinese and other emerging market players...

Xiaoxue Weng is a Researcher at Natural Resources Group. Her research focuses on natural resources governance, the informal economy, and the evolving role of Chinese and other emerging market players in Africa. As a part of her work, she engages closely with Chinese and African policymakers in the natural resource sector as well as Chinese, African, and international civil society organizations. She builds partnerships in China, Africa, and Europe for the International Institute for Environment and Development’s work on Chinese overseas investment in the global South.

Anzetse Were is an economist, researcher, and analyst with over 10 years of experience working in Africa on development economics, economic analysis and research, impact investment, and enterprise...

Anzetse Were is an economist, researcher, and analyst with over 10 years of experience working in Africa on development economics, economic analysis and research, impact investment, and enterprise development. Were is a weekly columnist for Business Daily Africa, and her work has also appeared in both local and international publications and websites. Her expertise in development economics has been sought out by local and international media houses such as BBC, CNBC Africa, The Economist, The Financial Times, and local media houses.

Kennett Werner is a prospective history major at Princeton University and an intern with the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. Previously he spent the summer in Beijing, working at...

Kennett Werner is a prospective history major at Princeton University and an intern with the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. Previously he spent the summer in Beijing, working at China's largest independent arts foundation. A native New Yorker, he graduated from the Dalton School.

Willem Wernsen, born in 1954 in Amersfoort, Netherlands, is a freelance photographer who focuses on social documentary. He is a member of the Dutch Professional Photographers Association. Before...

Willem Wernsen, born in 1954 in Amersfoort, Netherlands, is a freelance photographer who focuses on social documentary. He is a member of the Dutch Professional Photographers Association. Before turning to photography, he worked as a butcher and later a market superintendent in his hometown. He has published three books of photography: Beautiful People (2003); Timeless (2011); and Behind the Great Wall (2014), a photojournal of his 5-week trip to China in 1999.His series "Chinese Factory Workers" was on display at the international FotoFestival Naarden in the Netherlands in 2013. A year later, he participated as a member of the Dutch Naarden delegation to Photoville in NewYork. In November 2014, he was invited to participate in the fifth Jinan International Photography Biennial at the Art Gallery of Shandong Art Museum in Jinan, China. In December 2014, his "Chinese...

David Wertime is Head of Global Growth and Partnerships at Duco, an online marketplace connecting high-level consultants in international business and geopolitical risk with private clients. He was...

David Wertime is Head of Global Growth and Partnerships at Duco, an online marketplace connecting high-level consultants in international business and geopolitical risk with private clients. He was previously a ChinaFile Senior Editor and Strategic Consultant Fellow with the Center on U.S.-China Relations.He spent four years as Senior Editor for China at Foreign Policy magazine. He joined Foreign Policy after co-founding Tea Leaf Nation, an English-language website that analyzed Chinese media, acquired September 2013 by Foreign Policy’s parent company. Wertime’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and other well-known outlets. He has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and lectured at venues including Harvard Law School, Yale School of Management, and the State Department’s Fulbright program...

Daniel Whelan, director of the documentary film Bulkland, grew up in a small town in Australia. Since 2009, he has made two acclaimed short dramas, commercials, and a host of other content. Whelan...

Daniel Whelan, director of the documentary film Bulkland, grew up in a small town in Australia. Since 2009, he has made two acclaimed short dramas, commercials, and a host of other content. Whelan moved to China in 2010 and started to focus on documentary production. His work has been shown on ABC, PBS, and the BBC. His short films have played at festivals in Australia, China, and the U.S., where he also has worked as an assistant director for various companies and networks.

Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Center at the Australian National University. He studies Australian strategic and defense policy and the regional and...

Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Center at the Australian National University. He studies Australian strategic and defense policy and the regional and global security issues affecting Australia. He has been an intelligence analyst, a journalist, a senior staffer to Kim Beazley and Bob Hawke, a senior official in the Defence Department, and the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). He was the principal author of Australia’s 2000 "Defence White Paper." His recent publications include the Quarterly Essay "Power Shift: Australia’s future between Washington and Beijing" and "The China Choice: Why America should share power."{chop}

Anushka Wijesinha is a Sri Lankan economist and international consultant. He has worked at the World Bank, International Trade Center, ADB, and UNCTAD. He is the co-founder of Centre for a Smart...

Anushka Wijesinha is a Sri Lankan economist and international consultant. He has worked at the World Bank, International Trade Center, ADB, and UNCTAD. He is the co-founder of Centre for a Smart Future, an Asia-based think tank. He also serves on the Board of Directors of three leading financial services companies, Seylan Bank PLC, FairFirst Insurance Ltd, and HNB Finance PLC.

Patrick Wilcken is a Brazil specialist and human rights activist who currently works at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London. He has over a decade of experience working on...

Patrick Wilcken is a Brazil specialist and human rights activist who currently works at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London. He has over a decade of experience working on a wide range of human rights issues across Brazil. His research interests include policy developments in the criminal justice system, indigenous rights and housing policy. He has extensive field experience conducting research in indigenous reservations, the prison system, gang-dominated favelas, urban squats, cane plantations and areas of rural conflict. He has lobbied in Brasilia and at the UN, and has represented Amnesty in the media both in Brazil and internationally.He is the author of two acclaimed non-fiction books: Empire Adrift: the Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro 1808-21 (Bloomberg, 2005) and Claude Lévi-Strauss: the Poet in the Laboratory (Penguin Press, 2010...

Dennis Wilder is a senior fellow with the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University.  He served more than three decades as a leading China expert working...

Dennis Wilder is a senior fellow with the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University.  He served more than three decades as a leading China expert working on intelligence and national security for the U.S. government. Most recently, Wilder served as the CIA’s deputy assistant director for East Asia and the Pacific and previous to that had roles as the senior editor of the president’s Daily Brief and National Security Council special assistant to the president and director for East Asian affairs.

Katherine Wilhelm is Executive Director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law. She is an expert on China’s legal system, public interest law organizations, and...

Katherine Wilhelm is Executive Director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law. She is an expert on China’s legal system, public interest law organizations, and civil society. She joined USALI in August 2019 after returning from nearly three decades of residence in Asia, where she split her career between law and journalism. Most recently, she was the legal program officer at the Ford Foundation’s China office, where she funded Chinese legal advocacy NGOs and university-based legal research and education programs. Before that, she directed the Beijing office of Yale Law School’s China Law Center. Wilhelm also practiced corporate law in the Beijing office of a leading U.S. law firm. Before beginning her career in law, she reported for The Associated Press from Beijing, Hong Kong, and Hanoi, and for the Far Eastern Economic Review from Hong Kong and...

Jim Williams is Director of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project for the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network, headquartered at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Since 2005, he...

Jim Williams is Director of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project for the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network, headquartered at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Since 2005, he has been Chief Scientist at the San Francisco consulting firm E3, where he has advised on many aspects of energy technology, planning, and regulation for government and industry clients. In 2007, he led E3’s analysis for California state agencies on implementation of AB 32, the state’s landmark climate policy. He was lead author of an influential 2012 article in Science that analyzed California’s path to reducing Greenhouse Gasses (GHGs) 80 percent below 1990 by 2050, and subsequently has been closely involved in the analysis underlying Governor Jerry Brown’s announcement of the state’s commitment to a 40 percent reduction by 2030. In 2014, he led a research team from E3, Lawrence Berkeley...

Robert Williams is a lecturer at Yale Law School and a Senior Fellow of Yale’s China Law Center. He received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Following law school...

Robert Williams is a lecturer at Yale Law School and a Senior Fellow of Yale’s China Law Center. He received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Following law school, he clerked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice and for The Honorable E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was also an attorney in private practice.

Elizabeth Wishnick is a Senior Research Scientist in the China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division at CNA, on leave in 2022 from her position as Professor of Political Science at Montclair...

Elizabeth Wishnick is a Senior Research Scientist in the China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division at CNA, on leave in 2022 from her position as Professor of Political Science at Montclair State University. She also is a Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, and an Affiliate Researcher at the Center for Arctic Resilience in the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.Wishnick is known for her research on Sino-Russian relations, Chinese foreign policy, and China’s Arctic strategy. Her book project, China’s Risk: Oil, Water, Food and Regional Security (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), addresses the security consequences of energy, water, and food risks in China for its Eurasian neighbors, a topic she explores in a related policy blog.Wishnick received a Ph.D. in...

Edward (“Ted”) Wittenstein is a Lecturer in Global Affairs and Executive Director of the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy at Yale University. Prior to working and teaching at Yale,...

Edward (“Ted”) Wittenstein is a Lecturer in Global Affairs and Executive Director of the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy at Yale University. Prior to working and teaching at Yale, Ted held a variety of national security positions at the U.S. Department of Defense, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of State. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.

Austin Woerner is a Chinese-English literary translator. He has translated two volumes of poetry, Doubled Shadows: Selected Poetry of Ouyang Jianghe (Zephyr, 2012) and Phoenix by Ouyang Jianghe (...

Austin Woerner is a Chinese-English literary translator. He has translated two volumes of poetry, Doubled Shadows: Selected Poetry of Ouyang Jianghe (Zephyr, 2012) and Phoenix by Ouyang Jianghe (forthcoming from Zephyr, 2014), and a novel, The Invisible Valley (still unpublished) by Su Wei. Formerly the English Editor for the Chinese literary magazine Chutzpah!, Woerner has a Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies from Yale and an MFA in creative writing from the New School.

Tsering Woeser is a poet, essayist, and blogger, and one of the Tibetan movement’s most prominent voices. In 2011, she was awarded the Prince Claus Prize and the International Women of Courage Award...

Tsering Woeser is a poet, essayist, and blogger, and one of the Tibetan movement’s most prominent voices. In 2011, she was awarded the Prince Claus Prize and the International Women of Courage Award by the U.S. Department of State. She lives under close surveillance in Beijing.

David Wolf is Managing Director of Allison+Partners’ Global China Practice. Counseling American, Chinese, and European clients in a range of industries, Wolf created and leads a practice focused on...

David Wolf is Managing Director of Allison+Partners’ Global China Practice. Counseling American, Chinese, and European clients in a range of industries, Wolf created and leads a practice focused on helping clients manage the unique communications and marketing challenges that arise when Western firms do business in China, and when Chinese firms expand outside of the PRC. David is a recognized leader in the industry in China and a pioneer in the field of strategic corporate communications.In addition, David is called upon by regional and global media as an analyst and commentator on business in China, and contributes to publications including Foreign Policy, The Holmes Report, EuroBiz, Advertising Age magazine, and WARC. David is an Editorial Advisor for the China Economic Quarterly, and is the author of Making the Connection: The Peaceful Rise of China’s Telecommunications Giants (Wolf...

Jaime Wolf has been writing on a wide range of topics since the mid-1990s, for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Colors, Playboy, New York Magazine, GOOD Magazine, The New York Observer,...

Jaime Wolf has been writing on a wide range of topics since the mid-1990s, for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Colors, Playboy, New York Magazine, GOOD Magazine, The New York Observer, and other publications. He has a longstanding engagement with China and Chinese culture, and played a role in introducing Jackie Chan, Wong Kar-Wai, and Jia Zhangke to U.S. readers. In recent years, he has also served in an editorial capacity on the launch of GOOD Magazine and The Wall Street Journal’s weekend magazine, WSJ., and is currently part of the team behind an Internet startup slated to launch later this year. Additionally a Photographer, Screenwriter, and Director, Wolf has directed music videos and written screenplays for Hollywood studios and independent producers, and he is producing and preparing to direct The French Concession, a feature film about foreign expatriates in...

Wong How Man is a U.S.-educated former journalist who began working in China in 1974 and has been involved in minority regions of China for decades. He was involved in student demonstrations during...

Wong How Man is a U.S.-educated former journalist who began working in China in 1974 and has been involved in minority regions of China for decades. He was involved in student demonstrations during the Vietnam War.

Jan Wong, a journalist and author, divides her time between Toronto and Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she is a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. She has worked as a reporter at...

Jan Wong, a journalist and author, divides her time between Toronto and Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she is a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. She has worked as a reporter at the Montreal Gazette, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal and the Globe and Mail. From 1988 to 1994, she was the Globe and Mail’s Beijing correspondent, where she covered the massacre at Tiananmen Square. A graduate of McGill University, Peking University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, her first book, Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, was one of Time magazine’s top ten books of 1996. It remains banned in China. Her non-fiction books include: Lunch With: Sweet and Sour Celebrity Interviews and Jan Wong’s China: Reports from a Not-So-Foreign Correspondent. Her latest book is Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found

Lydia Wong is the pen name of a political science scholar and former rights activist from China. Currently based in the U.S., she has written widely on human rights movements in China, Chinese law...

Lydia Wong is the pen name of a political science scholar and former rights activist from China. Currently based in the U.S., she has written widely on human rights movements in China, Chinese law and governance, and the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

Wong Yi is a Hong Kong writer, librettist, and editor at Fleurs des Lettres. In 2020, she was named one of “20 Most Anticipated Young Sinophone Novelists” by Unitas. Her most recent book is Ways to...

Wong Yi is a Hong Kong writer, librettist, and editor at Fleurs des Lettres. In 2020, she was named one of “20 Most Anticipated Young Sinophone Novelists” by Unitas. Her most recent book is Ways to Love in a Crowded City. She is currently writing short stories inspired by Hong Kong’s history.

Chun Han Wong has covered China for The Wall Street Journal since 2014. He was part of a team of reporters named as Pulitzer Prize finalists for their coverage of China’s autocratic turn under Xi...

Chun Han Wong has covered China for The Wall Street Journal since 2014. He was part of a team of reporters named as Pulitzer Prize finalists for their coverage of China’s autocratic turn under Xi Jinping. As a Journal correspondent in Beijing and Hong Kong, Wong has written widely on subjects spanning elite politics, Communist Party doctrine, human and labor rights, as well as defense and diplomatic affairs. Born and raised in Singapore, Wong is a native speaker of English and Mandarin Chinese. He studied international history at the London School of Economics, where he graduated with first-class honors and won the Derby Bryce Prize.

Edward Wong is Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Since 2008, he has covered Chinese politics, economics, the military, foreign policy, the environment, culture, and a range of other issues...

Edward Wong is Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Since 2008, he has covered Chinese politics, economics, the military, foreign policy, the environment, culture, and a range of other issues. He has been a writer on three in-depth series, which explored China’s growing global reach, cultural production and censorship, and the 2012 leadership transition. Since being posted to China, he has also reported from countries across Asia, including Afghanistan, North Korea, and Myanmar.Wong has worked for The Times for more than thirteen years. His first foreign assignment for the newspaper was in the Baghdad bureau, where he covered the Iraq War from 2003 to 2007. Between his Iraq and China assignments, he studied Mandarin at Middlebury College and at Taiwan University. He first went to China in 1996, when he studied Mandarin at Beijing Language and Culture University. Wong’s parents...

Peter Wood is a Program Manager at BluePath Labs, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting company. Wood specializes in analysis of the Chinese military and science and technology ecosystem. He is the...

Peter Wood is a Program Manager at BluePath Labs, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting company. Wood specializes in analysis of the Chinese military and science and technology ecosystem. He is the author of, most recently, “China’s Ballistic Missile Industry” and “China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy” with Alex Stone. He has worked in a number of consulting and think tank roles, including as Editor of China Brief at the Jamestown Foundation. He received an M.A. from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and is proficient in Chinese.

Sophia Woodman is a sociologist who studies citizenship, human rights, social movements, and gender in contemporary China. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia...

Sophia Woodman is a sociologist who studies citizenship, human rights, social movements, and gender in contemporary China. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.Her Ph.D. thesis, “Local citizenship and socialized governance—linking citizens and the state in rural and urban Tianjin, China,” is a study of daily interactions between citizens and state agents, showing how the local shapes people’s expectations about the state’s obligations towards them.Her recent publications include: “Law, translation and voice: the transformation of a struggle for social justice in a Chinese village,” Critical Asian Studies 43, 2: 185-210, 2011 [PDF]; “Is there space for ‘genuine autonomy’ for Tibetan areas in the PRC’s system of Nationalities Regional Autonomy?” International Journal of Minority and Group Rights, 2010, Vol. 17: 137-186 (with Yash Ghai...

Jieh-min Wu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and served as a director at the Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He...

Jieh-min Wu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and served as a director at the Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He works on Sino-Taiwan relations, political and economic development in China, and democracy and civil society in Taiwan. He will publish Rent-Seeking Developmental State in China: Taishang, Guangdong Model and Global Capitalism in March 2019, a book series jointly published by National Taiwan University Press and The Harvard-Yenching Institute.

The late Ambassador Wu Jianmin was Executive Vice Chairman of China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy, a Senior Research Fellow of the Counselors’ office of the State Council of China...

The late Ambassador Wu Jianmin was Executive Vice Chairman of China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy, a Senior Research Fellow of the Counselors’ office of the State Council of China, a Member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, a Member and Vice President of the European Academy of Sciences, and Honorary President of the International Bureau of Exhibitions (BIE).From 2003 to 2008, Wu served as President of China Foreign Affairs University, Executive Vice President of the China National Association for International Studies, Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Spokesman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He served as China’s Ambassador to France from 1998 to 2003, from 1996 to 1998 as Ambassador of China to the UN in Geneva, and as Ambassador of China to the Netherlands from 1994 to 1995...

Yushan Wu is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a Research Associate at the Africa-China Reporting Project at Wits University in Johannesburg, and a...

Yushan Wu is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a Research Associate at the Africa-China Reporting Project at Wits University in Johannesburg, and a Research Associate at The South African Institute of International Affairs. She is South African and has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand. She also has a background in Media Studies and has assisted at the South African Broadcasting Corporation and contributed to a project on Chinese presence in South Africa for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Wu is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in International Relations, at the University of Pretoria.Wu’s areas of research are emerging countries and public diplomacy (through media and soft power) and China-Africa Relations (specifically South Africa, social consequences, and the media relationship).

Wu Guoguang is a Professor of Political Science and History and Chair in China and Pacific Relations at University of Victoria, Canada. Wu grew up in Shandong, where he was a xiaxiang qingnian (a...

Wu Guoguang is a Professor of Political Science and History and Chair in China and Pacific Relations at University of Victoria, Canada. Wu grew up in Shandong, where he was a xiaxiang qingnian (a sent-down youth) and then a factory worker until admitted into Peking University when university admission examinations were restored after the Cultural Revolution. Before attending the Nieman Program at Harvard in 1989, he was an editorialist of the People’s Daily in Beijing. He also joined the preparation for the CCP’s 13th National Congress as a member of the central policy group on political reform and of the drafting group of Zhao Ziyang’s political report. He then earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University, took research positions at the East Asian Institute of Columbia University and at the Fairbank Center of Harvard, and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong...

Wu Fei, a native of Beijing and a current Nashville resident, is a master of the guzheng, the ancient 21-string Chinese zither. She plays beautifully in the instrument’s more than 2,000-year-old...

Wu Fei, a native of Beijing and a current Nashville resident, is a master of the guzheng, the ancient 21-string Chinese zither. She plays beautifully in the instrument’s more than 2,000-year-old vernacular, and in a contemporary idiosyncratic, experimental dialect nurtured by years spent at Mills College and immersed in the New York Downtown improvisation scene which revolved around venues like The Stone, where Wu has frequently performed and curated.Wu composes for choir, string quartet, chamber ensemble, Balinese gamelan, and orchestra. Her commissions range from a composition for Percussions Claviers de Lyon, which premiered in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, to live performances in Paris and Tokyo for the luxury brand Hermès. In addition to her own original compositions, Wu has collaborated with many artists of different disciplines and genres, ranging from banjo-players...

Yidi Wu is a Ph.D. candidate in the History department at the University of California, Irvine. Born and raised in Beijing, she graduated from Oberlin College in 2011. Her dissertation focuses on...

Yidi Wu is a Ph.D. candidate in the History department at the University of California, Irvine. Born and raised in Beijing, she graduated from Oberlin College in 2011. Her dissertation focuses on student activism in 1950s China. She has contributed a chapter on Yan’an Rectification in 1943: China at the Crossroads (Cornell East Asia Series, 2015), and co-authored with Jeffrey Wasserstrom a chapter about Chinese revolution and reform in Scripting Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2015), as well as the annotated bibliography “People’s Movement in 1989” (Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies).

Yu-Shan Wu is Foreign Policy Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). She has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand...

Yu-Shan Wu is Foreign Policy Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). She has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand. She also has a background in media studies and has worked at the South African Broadcasting Corporation and contributed to a project on Chinese presence in South Africa for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Before joining SAIIA in 2012, she worked as a research and events assistant for SAIIA’s China in Africa Project.

Vivian Wu is the International Cooperation Director for Initium Media, a Hong Kong-based news, features, and data journalism website and app. Prior to moving to New York City in August 2016 for a...

Vivian Wu is the International Cooperation Director for Initium Media, a Hong Kong-based news, features, and data journalism website and app. Prior to moving to New York City in August 2016 for a Political Science graduate program at the New School, Wu was the Chief Content Director for China News at Initium Media in Beijing. Wu has over 15 years of experience working in newspapers, magazines, TV, and digital media. Among many other posts, she was Editorial Director at the celebrity magazine Portrait in China; media and legal reporter at the South China Morning Post Beijing Bureau for six years; and content supervisor at CCTV-6 for four years. She has won a great number of journalism awards in Hong Kong and Asia.Wu also has rich experience in managing international NGO and social enterprise programs in China, the U.S., Europe, Japan, and East Africa through cooperations with media, IT...

Clark Aoqi Wu is a Ph.D. student in politics at The Catholic University of America. He also holds a Master of Science in Global Politics from Birkbeck, University of London. His research interests...

Clark Aoqi Wu is a Ph.D. student in politics at The Catholic University of America. He also holds a Master of Science in Global Politics from Birkbeck, University of London. His research interests include comparative studies of dictatorship, U.S.-China relations, and the U.S. foreign policy in East Asia since the Cold War. He previously worked in Chinese NGOs based in Beijing.

Jost Wübbeke is the Head of Program Economy & Technology at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). The focus of his research is on China’s innovation policy and digital economy...

Jost Wübbeke is the Head of Program Economy & Technology at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). The focus of his research is on China’s innovation policy and digital economy. He written about industrial policy, smart manufacturing, and the Internet of Things in China. He is the co-author of a new report on China’s industrial policy, “Made in China 2025: The Making of a High-Tech Superpower and Consequences for Industrial Countries.”

Joel Wuthnow is a Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at National Defense University. He was previously a China analyst at CNA and a postdoctoral fellow in the...

Joel Wuthnow is a Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at National Defense University. He was previously a China analyst at CNA and a postdoctoral fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University. He received an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, an M.Phil. in Modern Chinese Studies from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Jörg Wuttke is Vice President and Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing. Since joining BASF in 1997, Wuttke has been responsible for helping guide the company’s investment strategy for...

Jörg Wuttke is Vice President and Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing. Since joining BASF in 1997, Wuttke has been responsible for helping guide the company’s investment strategy for China, negotiation of large projects, and government relations.Before joining BASF, Wuttke worked with ABB for 11 years. His first professional encounter with China was in 1988 as the Finance and Administration Manager of ABB Beijing. In 1990, he returned to Germany as Sales Manager of ABB Power Plants Division, responsible for gas turbine sales to Africa and Russia. In 1993, he became Chief Representative of ABB China, in Shanghai, and in 1994 moved to the President’s Office of ABB China in Beijing, where he was responsible for the development and financing of large projects.From 2001 to 2004, Wuttke was the Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in China. From 2007 to 2010 and from...

Colonel William M. (Chris) Wyatt is Director of African Studies at the United States Army War College and a professional military officer with more than 36 years of experience in security,...

Colonel William M. (Chris) Wyatt is Director of African Studies at the United States Army War College and a professional military officer with more than 36 years of experience in security, international development, and education in Africa, Europe, Southwest Asia, and North America. He received his commission as a Military Intelligence Officer from Ohio University in 1989. He is a graduate of the Military Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Counterintelligence course, the Signals Intelligence course, Combined Arms Services and Staff School, Air Assault School, Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College. Prior to his arrival at Carlisle Barracks, he was assigned to the U.S. Mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he was the Senior Military Advisor to the mission and the U.S. Africa Command Liaison Officer to the African...

Ali Wyne was a Senior Analyst with Eurasia Group’s Global Macro-Geopolitics practice from 2020 to 2023.Wyne served as a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 2008 to...

Ali Wyne was a Senior Analyst with Eurasia Group’s Global Macro-Geopolitics practice from 2020 to 2023.Wyne served as a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 2008 to 2009, working for Minxin Pei and Michael Swaine, and as a research assistant at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs from 2009 to 2012, working for Graham Allison. He served as a Senior Advisor at the State Department in 2013, working on a team that prepared Samantha Power for her confirmation hearing to be Ambassador to the United Nations. He served as a part-time research assistant at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2013 to 2014, helping Robert Blackwill and Jennifer Harris conduct research for their book War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft (2016). He served on the RAND Corporation’s adjunct staff from 2014 to 2015, working with the late Richard Solomon...

David Yeliang Xia is an independent scholar. He was formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His work focused on the institutional and policy...

David Yeliang Xia is an independent scholar. He was formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His work focused on the institutional and policy reforms China must make to become a modern, free society.Xia’s research interests include economic history, institutional economics, and macro-economic and other public policy. Prior to joining Cato, Xia was a professor in the Department of Economics at Peking University, where he had taught since 2000.He was dismissed from Peking University in October 2013 because of his outspoken criticism of the Chinese Communist Party and his advocacy of democracy and human rights.Xia was a visiting scholar at Stanford University from September 2012 to August 2013, a visiting professor at the University of California at Los Angeles from July 2011 to July 2012, and a visiting scholar at the University of...

Renee Xia is the International Director of the Chinese Human Rights Defenders network.

Renee Xia is the International Director of the Chinese Human Rights Defenders network.

Xiao Qiang is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website launched in 2003 to aggregate, organize, and recommend online information from and about China...

Xiao Qiang is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website launched in 2003 to aggregate, organize, and recommend online information from and about China. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Information, University of California at Berkeley, as well as the Director of the school's Counter-Power Lab, an interdisciplinary faculty-student research group focusing on the intersection of digital media, counter-censorship technology and cyberactivism.A theoretical physicist by training, Xiao Qiang studied at the University of Science and Technology of China and entered the Ph.D. program (1986-1989) in Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He became a full-time human rights activist after the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Xiao was the Executive Director of the New York-based NGO Human Rights in China from 1991 to 2002 and...

Muyi Xiao is a producer for The New York Times Visual Investigations team. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at ChinaFile and was previously the ChinaFile Visuals Editor.In the summer of 2015, Xiao was...

Muyi Xiao is a producer for The New York Times Visual Investigations team. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at ChinaFile and was previously the ChinaFile Visuals Editor.In the summer of 2015, Xiao was chosen as one of seven Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights Fellows. As a fellow, she studied at an intensive five-week program at New York University. Right after the fellowship, she was admitted to the International Center for Photography’s (ICP) New Media Narrative program in New York City from which she graduated in summer 2016.Before coming to New York, Xiao was based in Beijing and worked as a photojouranlist at Tencent, the largest online media outlet in China. Her career started in 2012 with a one-year internship at the Reuters Beijing desk as an editor before becoming a photojournalist. She covered a wide range of stories throughout China during her time as a photojournalist...

Eva Xiao is a data journalist at the Financial Times, based in New York. Previously, she was a ChinaFile Research Fellow and worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Agence...

Eva Xiao is a data journalist at the Financial Times, based in New York. Previously, she was a ChinaFile Research Fellow and worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Agence France-Presse, in Hong Kong and Beijing, respectively. While in China, she reported on tech, politics, and society, covering everything from tech tycoons and luxury nursing homes to the mass destruction of graves in Xinjiang using satellite imagery. In 2021, one of her stories for The Wall Street Journal, which detailed China’s ethnic policy under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, was part of a series that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. While based in Beijing, she also spent a year co-hosting the biweekly podcast Digitally China, which focused on the country’s fast-growing tech sector, including episodes on e-commerce, gaming censorship, and artificial intelligence.

Weisi Xie is the Shanghai Director at the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network (EICN), and is responsible for engaging with top executives in the region on key economic and political issues as...

Weisi Xie is the Shanghai Director at the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network (EICN), and is responsible for engaging with top executives in the region on key economic and political issues as well as industry-specific analysis to support their businesses in the dynamic Chinese market.Xie served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University before joining EICN. As a trained trade economist, his teaching and research mainly focused on the fields of international trade, industrial economics, and economic development, with a particular emphasis on China’s economy in a global perspective. He also possesses extensive expertise in the non-profit sector through work experience with think tanks and international organizations, including the Shanghai Institute for National Economy and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he contributed to...

Yanmei Xie is China Policy Analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, a financial research and consulting firm. She focuses on China's politics, political economy and foreign policy. Previously, she was...

Yanmei Xie is China Policy Analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, a financial research and consulting firm. She focuses on China's politics, political economy and foreign policy. Previously, she was International Crisis Group’s Senior China Analyst, and worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., for C-SPAN, the Capitol News Connection, Fox News, and the McGraw Hill Co. Before moving to the United States, Xie was an international news producer at China Central Television.

Xie Zhengyi, born in Anhui province, has worked as a photographer for over a decade. He is a photojournalist for the Huaibei Kuanggongbao (Huaibei Miners News), which has a daily circulation of 15,...

Xie Zhengyi, born in Anhui province, has worked as a photographer for over a decade. He is a photojournalist for the Huaibei Kuanggongbao (Huaibei Miners News), which has a daily circulation of 15,000, and also works as a contract photographer for several news agencies and websites.

Xie Tao is Professor and Dean of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His research interests include Congress, public opinion, and China-U.S...

Xie Tao is Professor and Dean of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His research interests include Congress, public opinion, and China-U.S. relations. He has published extensively in both Chinese and English.He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University (2007). He is the author of U.S.-China Relations: China Policy on Capitol Hill (Routledge 2009) and Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China (with Benjamin I. Page, Columbia University Press, 2010). He has also published several articles in the Journal of Contemporary China, including “What Affects China’s National Image? A Cross-National Study of Public Opinion” (September 2013). He is a frequent guest on CCTV News, the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and China Radio International.

Born in Xi'an, China, Beijing-based artist Xing Danwen received her B.F.A. in painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and M.F.A. in photography from the School of Visual Arts...

Born in Xi'an, China, Beijing-based artist Xing Danwen received her B.F.A. in painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and M.F.A. in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. In her current art practice she continues to work in photography and also has expanded into the field of mixed media, video, and multi-media installations.Xing exhibits domestically and internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Pompidou Center, International Center for Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1st Yokohama Triennale, and Sydney Biennale 2004.Xing is a contributor to LEAP magazine.

Xu Zhiyong is a legal scholar and was a university lecturer. He holds a doctorate from Peking University. He co-founded the New Citizens Movement, a group that advocated civil rights and China’s...

Xu Zhiyong is a legal scholar and was a university lecturer. He holds a doctorate from Peking University. He co-founded the New Citizens Movement, a group that advocated civil rights and China’s peaceful transition to constitutional rule. Detained in July 2013, he was sentenced to four years’ jail in 2014 for “gathering crowds to disrupt public order.” He went into hiding in late 2019, until he was detained in Guangzhou on February 15, 2020.You can read more about Xu Zhiyong on ChinaFile.

Xiaohong Xu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Michigan. Xu received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2014 from Yale University, his M.A. in Sociology in...

Xiaohong Xu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Michigan. Xu received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2014 from Yale University, his M.A. in Sociology in 2005 from Notre Dame, and his B.A. in Sociology from Beijing University in 2001. Prior to Michigan, he taught at the National University of Singapore from 2014 to 2018 and Lingnan University in Hong Kong from 2018 to 2019.He researches modern Chinese politics from a historical sociological perspective. He has researched and written on the May Fourth Movement and the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the development of Communist guerrilla bases, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and Hong Kong’s 2019 protests. He is writing a book on how the labor politics during the Cultural Revolution inadvertently led to the demise of Maoism and shaped the strange bedfellowship between post-Mao China...

Vicky Xiuzhong Xu is a researcher for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Cyber Policy Centre.Previously, she was a journalist for The New York Times Sydney Bureau, covering general news with...

Vicky Xiuzhong Xu is a researcher for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Cyber Policy Centre.Previously, she was a journalist for The New York Times Sydney Bureau, covering general news with a focus on China-Australia relations. She also covered China and Chinese diaspora communities for Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Asia Pacific Newsroom in Melbourne.Xu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Melbourne. During an exchange semester in Jerusalem, she researched One Belt One Road, China-Iran, and China-Turkey relations at The Harry S. Truman Research Institute.A standup comedian, she is also writing a novel in her spare time.

Xu Song is a senior photo editor at Tencent News.In 2017, he launched a photography education program for left-behind children in mountainous areas of northern Shanxi province and southwestern Yunnan...

Xu Song is a senior photo editor at Tencent News.In 2017, he launched a photography education program for left-behind children in mountainous areas of northern Shanxi province and southwestern Yunnan province. As the organizer as well as a teacher, he uses photography as an entry point to encourage children to express themselves. In December 2018, Xu Song curated an exhibition in Beijing of photography from his students.Xu’s series “Summer Swimming Pools” was photographed in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and his series “White Shirts” was photographed in 2017 and 2018.Xu graduated from Communication University of China.

Xu Zhangrun was a professor of law at Tsinghua University and the author of a series of prominent essays critiquing the leadership of Xi Jinping.

Xu Zhangrun was a professor of law at Tsinghua University and the author of a series of prominent essays critiquing the leadership of Xi Jinping.

Xu Zhiyuan is a columnist for the Financial Times Chinese. After graduating from Peking University in 2000, he became a journalist and author. He was Editorial Editor for The Economic Observer and...

Xu Zhiyuan is a columnist for the Financial Times Chinese. After graduating from Peking University in 2000, he became a journalist and author. He was Editorial Editor for The Economic Observer and Executive Editor for Bloomberg BusinessWeek China. He won the Excellence in Opinion Writing SOPA award in 2008. He was also selected as a participant in the National Committee on US-China Relations Young Leaders Forum in 2006 and the BMW Foundation Young Leaders Forum in 2005. His latest books are Alienated from the Motherland and The Totalitarian Temptation.

Xibai Xu is formerly a D.Phil. candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on how the Chinese state regulates social organizations through the...

Xibai Xu is formerly a D.Phil. candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on how the Chinese state regulates social organizations through the increasing use of market mechanisms and tools, including direct procurement of social services and indirect control over private charitable foundations. He has translated four books in political science into Chinese, most recently Sebastian Veg’s Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals. He is also a regular columnist for Chinese-language media such as Initium Media, The Paper, Caixin, and Jiemian News.

Yixiang Xu is a Fellow with the New Research Initiative at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), working on the Institute’s China-Germany-U.S. triangular relationship...

Yixiang Xu is a Fellow with the New Research Initiative at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), working on the Institute’s China-Germany-U.S. triangular relationship initiative. Xu researches American and German perspectives regarding challenges and opportunities posed by expanding Chinese economic, political, and security engagements around the world. The triangular relationship initiative has brings together high-level government officials, academic experts, and business leaders from Germany and the U.S. for workshops and conferences that aim to facilitate transatlantic exchange and foster policy cooperation.Xu received an M.A. in International Political Economy from The Josef Korbel School of International Studies at The University of Denver and a B.A. in Linguistics and Classics from The University of Pittsburgh. He also studied in Germany, Israel, Italy,...

Yong Xue is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Suffolk Unviersity, where he teaches Chinese history, Japanese history, and cultural contact in world history. He received a B.A. in...

Yong Xue is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Suffolk Unviersity, where he teaches Chinese history, Japanese history, and cultural contact in world history. He received a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Peking University, and an M.A. in East Asian Studies and Ph.D. in History from Yale University.

Yongle Xue received an M.A. in History from Yale University in 2016. She was born and raised in Shanghai and came to the United States after high school. She studied History and Economics at...

Yongle Xue received an M.A. in History from Yale University in 2016. She was born and raised in Shanghai and came to the United States after high school. She studied History and Economics at Georgetown University, where she spoke at the Senior Convocation. Xue is interested in foreign and public policy, cross-cultural communications, and the creative arts. She will return to Shanghai this year and start working as a journalist.

Photographer Michael Yamashita has been shooting for the National Geographic magazine for more than thirty years, combining his dual passions of photography and travel.  After graduating...

Photographer Michael Yamashita has been shooting for the National Geographic magazine for more than thirty years, combining his dual passions of photography and travel.  After graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in Asian studies, he spent seven years in Asia, which has become his photographic area of specialty. Upon returning to the U.S., Yamashita began shooting for the National Geographic as well as other American and international magazines and clients.His work has taken him to six continents, and as a third-generation Japanese-American, he is fluent in Japanese, and has covered the length of Japan, from Hokkaido to Kyushu.  Yamashita’s particular specialty is in retracing the paths of famous travelers, resulting in stories on Marco Polo, the Japanese poet Basho, and the Chinese explorer Zheng He. His feature documentary, The Ghost Fleet,...

Yan Hairong is an anthropologist who is an Associate Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and M.A. from University of California...

Yan Hairong is an anthropologist who is an Associate Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and M.A. from University of California, Berkeley. Yan has published articles on not only China-Africa relations, but also Chinese proverbs, modernization in East Asia, and the discourse of development. She has been particularly active in discussion of Chinese copper mining in Zambia. She has published a number of monographs and numerous journal articles, as well as op-eds and online contributions.Source: China-Africa Knowledge Project

Yan Xuetong is Dean of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University and Secretary General of the World Peace Forum.He is Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of International...

Yan Xuetong is Dean of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University and Secretary General of the World Peace Forum.He is Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of International Politics and serves as an adviser to several leading academic journals. A well-known academic in the Chinese foreign policy community, Yan is Vice Chairman of both the China Association of International Relations Studies and the China Association of American Studies, and is a member of the Consultation Committee of China’s Ministry of Commerce. Yan also serves on several boards, including those of the China Diplomacy Association and the China Association of Foreign Friendship.Yan has written several books, including Analysis of China’s National Interests, winner of the 1998 China Book Prize, and Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power.

Fan Yang joined the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies in 2011. Her research and teaching interests include...

Fan Yang joined the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies in 2011. Her research and teaching interests include cultural studies and globalization, media and communication in modern and contemporary China, urbanism and urban communication, and visual culture. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Asian Studies program, and serves on the Global Studies Coordinating Committee.Yang is the author of Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2015). Her new project, tentatively titled “Chimerica: A Transnational Cultural Production,” examines the imaginary fusion of China and America in a growing number of transnational media artifacts. Yang’s work has appeared in Theory, Culture & Society; New Media & Society; Quarterly Review of...

Yujeong Yang is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she teaches Chinese politics and authoritarian politics. Her research focuses on...

Yujeong Yang is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she teaches Chinese politics and authoritarian politics. Her research focuses on labor politics and welfare politics in China. In her book project, she discusses how labor mobility and labor informality jointly shape China’s welfare expansion strategies. Her recent projects also examine how China’s global economic expansion influences labor dynamics and state-society relationships abroad. Born and raised in South Korea, Yang received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2018.

Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he...

Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of The Wuhan Lockdown (Columbia University Press, 2022), The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (Columbia University Press, 2016), and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press, 2009). He is also the editor or co-editor of six books, including Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production (Michigan State University Press, 2021).

Photographer Yang Fawei is the Headmaster of the Hubei Media Photographer Training Institute and President of the Hubei Photographers Association. His published works include Momentary Thought and...

Photographer Yang Fawei is the Headmaster of the Hubei Media Photographer Training Institute and President of the Hubei Photographers Association. His published works include Momentary Thought and Practice of News Photography (Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, 1998), The Ancient City Wall: The Expression of Xiangyang City (Hubei People’s Press, 2010), and Looking Homeward: The Disappearing Rural Landscape (China Peace Publishing House, 2013), among others. His photography has been recognized in international competitions in Finland, Serbia, Montenegro, Ireland, and elsewhere.

Yang Zhanqing began to advocate for the rights of people with chronic medical conditions in May 2008. In 2009, he began to campaign for NGOs that advocate for changes in anti-discrimination policy,...

Yang Zhanqing began to advocate for the rights of people with chronic medical conditions in May 2008. In 2009, he began to campaign for NGOs that advocate for changes in anti-discrimination policy, at Zhengzhou Yirenping (亿人平）（A Billion People for Peace) and at the Beijing Yirenping Center (益仁平). In June 2015, Yang was detained by both the Zhengzhou and Beijing authorities for the illegal publication and distribution of his 2008 pamphlet “A Bulletin Against Discrimination.” After a month, Yang was released and his status was changed to “bail pending criminal investigation.” According to Chinese law, the status and restrictions of “bail pending criminal investigation” can be removed after one year if there is no new criminal activity or violation of bail—a year has passed, but Yang has received no notice of change in his status.

Martin Yang is the director of the China AIDS Walk.

Martin Yang is the director of the China AIDS Walk.

Yang Fuqiang is a Senior Adviser on Climate and Energy for the China Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. He has been involved in energy and environmental issues for more than three...

Yang Fuqiang is a Senior Adviser on Climate and Energy for the China Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. He has been involved in energy and environmental issues for more than three decades. From 2008 to 2010, Yang served as Director of Global Climate Solutions for World Wildlife Fund International. Prior to that, he spent eight years as the head of Energy Foundation China, which is dedicated to reducing carbon emissions through energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. Yang received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from China’s Jilin University in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University in 1991. He is based in Beijing.

Emily T. Yeh is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She conducts research on nature-society relations in Tibetan parts of the People's Republic of China,...

Emily T. Yeh is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She conducts research on nature-society relations in Tibetan parts of the People's Republic of China, including projects on conflicts over access to natural resources, the relationship between ideologies of nature and nation, the political ecology of pastoral environment and development policies, vulnerability of Tibetan herders to climate change, and emerging environmental subjectivities. Her book Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press 2013) explores the intersection of political economy and cultural politics of development as a project of state territorialization.

Horace Yeung is Associate Professor in Commercial Law at the University of Leicester. Prior to his appointment at Leicester, he taught at Exeter, Oxford and Universität Osnabrück. He completed his...

Horace Yeung is Associate Professor in Commercial Law at the University of Leicester. Prior to his appointment at Leicester, he taught at Exeter, Oxford and Universität Osnabrück. He completed his undergraduate study in Hong Kong before coming to the UK for his LLM at Lancaster and doctorate at Oxford. His research interests lie in corporate and financial laws, distinctively with a global, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach. He has a keen interest to look at the experience of Asia, most notably Hong Kong, his home city.

Charlotte Yeung is the pen name of a human rights lawyer and activist from Hong Kong. Now in exile, she continues to write regularly on legal developments and the rule of law in Hong Kong.

Charlotte Yeung is the pen name of a human rights lawyer and activist from Hong Kong. Now in exile, she continues to write regularly on legal developments and the rule of law in Hong Kong.

YiChen is the pen name of a photographer working in China.

YiChen is the pen name of a photographer working in China.

Dave Yin is a reporter and editor at Caixin Global, where he covers COVID-19, China policy, and technology. Before moving to China, he reported from Canada, the U.S., and France, and has covered...

Dave Yin is a reporter and editor at Caixin Global, where he covers COVID-19, China policy, and technology. Before moving to China, he reported from Canada, the U.S., and France, and has covered foreign policy, societal issues, and tech. He studied journalism with a focus on international reporting at Carleton University and is also a photographer. He calls Toronto home.

Chi Yin is a research scholar at New York University Law School’s US-Asia Law Institute. She joined the Institute in 2013, and her research currently focuses on China’s recently revised Criminal...

Chi Yin is a research scholar at New York University Law School’s US-Asia Law Institute. She joined the Institute in 2013, and her research currently focuses on China’s recently revised Criminal Procedure Law. Yin previously served as a judge in the Intermediate Court of the greater Chengdu Municipality. The cases she tried included both appellate and first-instance criminal trials of white collar, drug trafficking, and violent crimes. Other work in the court included managing projects related to internal court reform, and editing an internal law review. She left the court in 2008 and moved to the U.S., where she pursued public interest law, volunteering with Colorado Legal Services and then interning with China Labor Watch. She received an L.L.M. from NYU in 2013. She received an L.L.B and Master’s of Law from Sichuan University, and has been a member of the Chinese bar since 2004. She...

Hilton Yip is a journalist and political analyst based in Taipei. He has been in East Asia for over 13 years, having also worked in Beijing and Hong Kong in journalism and business editorial roles...

Hilton Yip is a journalist and political analyst based in Taipei. He has been in East Asia for over 13 years, having also worked in Beijing and Hong Kong in journalism and business editorial roles. He has written extensively about geopolitical, business, and socio-economic issues in Taiwan, as well as in Hong Kong and mainland China. He speaks English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Jeremy Youde is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth. A global health politics and policy researcher, he previously held appointments at the Australian...

Jeremy Youde is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth. A global health politics and policy researcher, he previously held appointments at the Australian National University, Grinnell College, and San Diego State University. He is the author of five books, the most recent being Globalization and Health (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). He also serves as the Chair of the Global Health Studies Section of the International Studies Association.

Stephen M. Young served for over 33 years in the U.S. Foreign Service. He was Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, and Consul General to Hong Kong. He is...

Stephen M. Young served for over 33 years in the U.S. Foreign Service. He was Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, and Consul General to Hong Kong. He is now retired and living in New Hampshire.

Professor Laura Wen-yu Young is Managing Partner of the law firm of Wang & Wang, LLP, with offices in China, Taiwan and San Francisco.  She serves as a member of the Executive...

Professor Laura Wen-yu Young is Managing Partner of the law firm of Wang & Wang, LLP, with offices in China, Taiwan and San Francisco.  She serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the U.C. Berkeley Foundation. She is a Director of the Wang Family Foundation.Professor Young has taught in U.C. Berkeley’s Department of Rhetoric, and the Law School’s School of Jurisprudence and Social Policy. She has taught at several universities including Soochow University’s Kenneth Wang School of Law in Suzhou China, Cornell University Law School, and Pacific/McGeorge School of Law. Her courses include International Intellectual Property, Chinese Law and Legal History, International Business Transactions, Foundations of Law: Greece, Rome and China.Professor Young has authored many articles on Chinese law and business including, for Pearson’s, West,...

Nick Young created China Development Brief in 1996 and ran it, on the most threadbare of shoestrings, until expelled by the Government of China in 2007. Originally an English language print...

Nick Young created China Development Brief in 1996 and ran it, on the most threadbare of shoestrings, until expelled by the Government of China in 2007. Originally an English language print publication, the brief evolved into separate ‘sister’ magazines and websites in English and Chinese. Since leaving China, Young has been mainly in East Africa, where he created and passed on to local journalists Oil in Uganda. He does consulting work in fields ranging from natural resource governance to communication to disability, blogs occasionally on nickyoungwrites.com and grows apples between times at his family home in Cantabria.Back in the 20th century, he worked as a residential social worker in a U.K. probation hostel, as a translator and writer in the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, as Special Adviser to the Rt. Hon. Ann Taylor, MP, (...

Frank Youngman is Professor of Adult Education at the University of Botswana. He was educated at the universities of Nottingham and Hull, and at the London School of Economics. He has worked at the...

Frank Youngman is Professor of Adult Education at the University of Botswana. He was educated at the universities of Nottingham and Hull, and at the London School of Economics. He has worked at the University of Botswana since 1975 and has been Head of the Department of Adult Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education. In Botswana he has participated in a wide range of governmental committees responsible for areas such as rural extension, women in development, adult literacy, teacher education, and distance learning. He was a member of the Presidential Commission that reviewed Botswana’s education system in 1992-1993 and he is on the UNESCO National Commission. Elsewhere in Africa, he has undertaken advisory and training work for various governments.

Jianxing Yu is Yangtze River Distinguished Professor and the Dean of the School of Public Affairs at Zhejiang University. His research interests include local government innovation, the relationship...

Jianxing Yu is Yangtze River Distinguished Professor and the Dean of the School of Public Affairs at Zhejiang University. His research interests include local government innovation, the relationship between state and society, local governance, and civil society in China. His most recent book publications as author or editor include Civil Society and Governance in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and A Path for Chinese Civil Society: A Case Study on Industrial Associations in Wenzhou, China (Lexington Books, 2012). His articles have appeared in international journals including The Australian Journal of Public Administration, The Journal of Contemporary China, China Review, and The Journal of Chinese Political Science. Yu is also the chief editor of the new Journal of Chinese Governance.

Yu He is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, an affiliate at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and a docent at the Stanford Jasper Ridge...

Yu He is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, an affiliate at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and a docent at the Stanford Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Science from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Cici Yu is a senior studying Journalism and Public Policy Analysis at Boston University. She recently completed her summer internship at Bloomberg Law, where she wrote an investigative story on...

Cici Yu is a senior studying Journalism and Public Policy Analysis at Boston University. She recently completed her summer internship at Bloomberg Law, where she wrote an investigative story on barriers for opioid victims accessing Purdue Pharma settlement funds as a top feature on Bloomberg platforms and multiple other daily stories about national health policy and litigations. She hopes to utilize her data and investigative skills to report on public health policy and health equity issues in the future. Her work has appeared on Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg News, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Milford Daily News, The Maine Monitor, DigBoston, The Daily Free Press, and more.

Kate Yuan is a senior at New York University pursuing an accelerated B.A. in Philosophy and M.P.A. in International Development. She first worked with informal schools in Kenya in 2013. In 2016, she...

Kate Yuan is a senior at New York University pursuing an accelerated B.A. in Philosophy and M.P.A. in International Development. She first worked with informal schools in Kenya in 2013. In 2016, she returned to Nairobi with her colleague Joany Huang to develop the first large-scale informal school teacher training program, Care for All Kids. With a strong passion for the NGO sector, she has worked for nonprofits in America, Asia, and Africa, including United Nations Foundation, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Breast Treatment Task Force, and Mae Fah Lunag Royal Foundation.

Li Yuan writes The New New World column for The New York Times, which focuses on the intersection of technology, business, and politics in China and across Asia. She is a co-founder and host of the...

Li Yuan writes The New New World column for The New York Times, which focuses on the intersection of technology, business, and politics in China and across Asia. She is a co-founder and host of the Chinese-language Bu Mingbai Podcast.

Samson Yuen is a doctoral student at Oxford University and a research assistant at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC). He researches Chinese politics with a focus on civil...

Samson Yuen is a doctoral student at Oxford University and a research assistant at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC). He researches Chinese politics with a focus on civil society, NGOs, and local governance. With his roots in Hong Kong, Yuen also studies the city’s politics and social movements and is co-editing a book on the Umbrella Movement. His articles have appeared in China Perspectives, The Diplomat, Twenty-First Century, Mingpao, The Stand News, Hong Kong Economic Journal, and Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly. He is an occasional television commentator on Chinese politics. Prior to joining academia, Yuen worked as a management consultant and traveled between Hong Kong, China, and Southeast Asia. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and an M.Phil. in Politics (Comparative Government) from Oxford University.

Elliott Zaagman is the Co-Host of the China Tech Investor podcast, and works as a PR and leadership consultant for Chinese tech founders and executives. He is a frequent commentator on issues facing...

Elliott Zaagman is the Co-Host of the China Tech Investor podcast, and works as a PR and leadership consultant for Chinese tech founders and executives. He is a frequent commentator on issues facing China and its tech industry, having written for The Lowy Institute, Foreign Policy, SupChina, and Technode, as well as in Chinese on Huxiu.com.

Sergei Zamascikov is an independent consultant based in Los Angeles. He holds degrees from Latvian State University and UCLA. He has worked for the London International Institute for Strategic...

Sergei Zamascikov is an independent consultant based in Los Angeles. He holds degrees from Latvian State University and UCLA. He has worked for the London International Institute for Strategic Studies and for RAND Corporation (Santa Monica).

Zeng Jinyan, writer, scholar, activist, and documentary filmmaker, is the 2017 Oak Fellow at Colby College. Zeng earned her PhD at the University of Hong Kong in 2017. Her PhD thesis is entitled The...

Zeng Jinyan, writer, scholar, activist, and documentary filmmaker, is the 2017 Oak Fellow at Colby College. Zeng earned her PhD at the University of Hong Kong in 2017. Her PhD thesis is entitled The Genesis of Citizen Intelligentsia in Digital China: Ai Xiaoming’s Practices of Identity and Activism. Her "Visualizing Truth-Telling in Ai Xiaoming’s Documentary Activism” appared in Studies in Documentary Film in 2017.  Zeng’s 2016 book Feminism and Genesis of the Citizen Intelligentsia in China (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press) received a Publishing Award in the Social Science category of the 2017 Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards. Zeng co-directed the documentary film Prisoners in Freedom City with Hu Jia (2007), wrote the script for the animated short A Poem to Liu Xia (Trish McAdam, 2015), and produced the feature documentary film We The Workers (Wen Hai,...

Adrian Zenz is Director and Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, in Washington, D.C. (non-resident). His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy, Beijing...

Adrian Zenz is Director and Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, in Washington, D.C. (non-resident). His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy, Beijing’s campaign of mass internment, securitization and forced labor in Xinjiang, public recruitment and coercive poverty alleviation in Tibet and Xinjiang, and China’s domestic security budgets. Zenz is the author of ‘Tibetanness’ under Threat: Neo-Integrationism, Minority Education and Career Strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China (Brill, 2013) and co-editor of Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Change (Oriental Institute, 2017). He has played a leading role in the analysis of leaked Chinese government documents, including the “China Cables,” the “Karakax List,” and the “Xinjiang Papers.” Zenz is an advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, and a frequent contributor to the international media...

Zha Daojiong is a professor in the School of International Studies and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University. His areas of expertise include international...

Zha Daojiong is a professor in the School of International Studies and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University. His areas of expertise include international political economy and China’s international economic relations, particularly the fields of energy and natural resources, development aid, and the economics-political nexus in the Asia Pacific region. His research has extended to political and social risk-management for Chinese corporations engaged in non-financial investments abroad, including the publication of the edited volumes Chinese Investment Overseas: Case Studies on Environmental and Social Risks (Peking University Press, 2014) and Risk Management under the Belt and Road Initiative: Economic and Societal Dimensions (Oceanic Press, 2017).He was invited to serve as non-resident fellow in a number of public policy think tanks and advisory...

Zha Jianying is a writer, journalist, and cultural commentator in both English and Chinese. She is the author of two books in English, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (named “...

Zha Jianying is a writer, journalist, and cultural commentator in both English and Chinese. She is the author of two books in English, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (named “One of the best books of 2011” by The Economist), and China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture, and six books of non-fiction and fiction in Chinese, the most recent being Freedom Is Not Free (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work has appeared widely in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Dushu, and Wanxiang. Tide Players was selected by The Economist as “One of the Best Books of 2011.” China Pop was selected by The Village Voice as “One of the 25 Best Books of 1995.” Her Chinese book in 2006, Bashiniandai (The Eighties), was selected as the “Best Book of the Year” by numerous mainland Chinese publications A recipient...

Jianqing Zhang received her Bachelor’s degree in International Education from Shanghai International Studies University. After working at Shanghai Daily for two years, she went to Dartmouth College...

Jianqing Zhang received her Bachelor’s degree in International Education from Shanghai International Studies University. After working at Shanghai Daily for two years, she went to Dartmouth College for her Master’s degree in Liberal Studies. She previously worked at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Zhang is an intern with ChinaFile. She has an interest in U.S.-China relations and hopes to promote cultural exchange between the two countries.

Effy Zhang is a Beijing-based reporter and Deputy Editor in Chief for the privately-run financial news outlet Caixin. She reports on global affairs for Caixin’s digital distribution arm, Caixin Media...

Effy Zhang is a Beijing-based reporter and Deputy Editor in Chief for the privately-run financial news outlet Caixin. She reports on global affairs for Caixin’s digital distribution arm, Caixin Media Globus, where her articles are distributed on WeChat, Weibo, and the popular news aggregator app Jinri Toutiao, among others. Her work also appears in Caixin’s print magazine. Zhang is a graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University and is very active on Twitter at @EffyZhangmy.

Taisu Zhang is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He has published one book on the comparative history of Chinese and English property institutions (The Laws and Economics of Confucianism:...

Taisu Zhang is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He has published one book on the comparative history of Chinese and English property institutions (The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England), and is writing another on the late imperial Chinese fiscal state. He has also written a large number of articles, essays, and book chapters, in both academic and media venues, on topics in legal theory and contemporary Chinese law and politics. Zhang is a Global Faculty member at Peking University Law School and holds a secondary appointment at Yale as Professor of History. Previously, he has taught at the Duke University School of Law, the University of Hong Kong, Brown University, and the Tsinghua University School of Law.

Kylin Zhang is currently a Master’s student at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. As an intern reporter, she used to work for Zhejiang Daily and Global Times...

Kylin Zhang is currently a Master’s student at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. As an intern reporter, she used to work for Zhejiang Daily and Global Times Metro Shanghai, where she conducted interviews and published over 20 stories. Zhang’s internship inspired her to pursue journalism upon returning from the U.K. with a Bachelor’s in English Language and Literature.

Zhongxiang Zhang is a distinguished professor at Tianjin University. He is a Fellow of Asia and the Pacific Policy Society, Australia, and serves as China Country Representative in the European...

Zhongxiang Zhang is a distinguished professor at Tianjin University. He is a Fellow of Asia and the Pacific Policy Society, Australia, and serves as China Country Representative in the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and on the Scientific Council of Paris-based IDDRI, Sciences Po. Zhang is a distinguished professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he is an adjunct professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has contributed to a number of China’s long-term goals and strategies, including the carbon intensity target for 2020, capping carbon emissions around 2030, and the establishment of the One Belt-One Road initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.He is co-editor of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies and the International Journal of Public Policy, and he serves on the editorial...

Junjie Zhang is the Director of and Associate Professor in the Environmental Research Center and Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) Program at Duke Kunshan University and Associate Professor of...

Junjie Zhang is the Director of and Associate Professor in the Environmental Research Center and Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) Program at Duke Kunshan University and Associate Professor of Environmental Economics in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Prior to his current position, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Zhang’s research centers on empirical issues in environmental and resource economics. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach that integrates social sciences, engineering, and natural sciences to deal with environmental policy problems. His research topics cover air pollution, water resources, energy, and climate change. Zhang is a Senior Advisor at Asia Society. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics from Duke University, an M.S. and a B.S. in...

Zhang Xiaoran is U.S.-China Dialogue Fellow with Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, where she works on the U.S.-China Dialogue project and on Chinese social media outreach. She holds...

Zhang Xiaoran is U.S.-China Dialogue Fellow with Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, where she works on the U.S.-China Dialogue project and on Chinese social media outreach. She holds a B.A. from Peking University, where she concentrated in Chinese Literature and Film, and an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Zhang spent a winter doing volunteer work in a charity school in India, and previously interned at Sanlian Life Week, a Mainland Chinese magazine.

Zhang Mengqi is currently a graduate student in the International Relations program at New York University, focusing on refugee studies and comparative politics. Before coming to the U.S., she...

Zhang Mengqi is currently a graduate student in the International Relations program at New York University, focusing on refugee studies and comparative politics. Before coming to the U.S., she received a B.A. in International Relations and Diplomacy from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Zhang is an intern with the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations, where she focuses on Chinese politics.

Annie Jieping Zhang is a Nieman Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. A media entrepreneur, journalist, and columnist, she is the Founder & CEO of Matters Lab, a...

Annie Jieping Zhang is a Nieman Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. A media entrepreneur, journalist, and columnist, she is the Founder & CEO of Matters Lab, a decentralized social media platform, and Nowhere Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Taipei that has cultivated a distinctive cultural community bridging Taiwan and Hong Kong.Zhang also co-founded and was Editor-in-Chief of Initium Media, a Chinese-language online publication. She previously worked as an Editor at City Magazine; as Executive Editor-in-Chief for iSun Affairs, an online magazine; and as a reporter for Asia Week. From 2006 to 2015, she wrote extensively about the governance, politics, and social movements in mainland China and Hong Kong. She is currently working on a program that builds decentralized support networks for independent journalists who face censorship and political...

Lijia Zhang is a factory-worker-turned writer, columnist, social commentator, and public speaker. She was born into a poor worker’s family in Nanjing, on the banks of Yangtze River. At 16, she was...

Lijia Zhang is a factory-worker-turned writer, columnist, social commentator, and public speaker. She was born into a poor worker’s family in Nanjing, on the banks of Yangtze River. At 16, she was taken out of school and put to work at a missile factory, where she taught herself English. Her articles have appeared in many international publications, including South China Morning Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, and The New York Times. She is the co-author of China Remembers, an oral history of the People’s Republic of China. Her memoir, Socialism Is Great!, about her decade-long experience working at the factory in the 1980’s, was first published in the U.S. in 2008 and has been translated into numerous languages around the world. She is a regular speaker on the BBC, Channel 4, CNN, and National Public Radio. She was a recipient of the prestigious fellowship for the International Writers’...

Lynn Zhang graduated from New York University with a Master’s degree in Journalism. Currently based in Beijing, she is a freelance video producer for The New York Times.

Lynn Zhang graduated from New York University with a Master’s degree in Journalism. Currently based in Beijing, she is a freelance video producer for The New York Times.

Zhang Yong is Director of The Center for African Film and Television Studies at Zhejiang Normal University. He received a Ph.D. in 2015 from the Beijing Film Academy, and was the first Chinese...

Zhang Yong is Director of The Center for African Film and Television Studies at Zhejiang Normal University. He received a Ph.D. in 2015 from the Beijing Film Academy, and was the first Chinese focusing on African Film Research area. Zhang has published over 20 scholarly papers in different academic journals and is the organizer of the China-Africa Film and Television Cooperation Forum. Films he has directed include: A Pigeon of Public Market, Finding Seattle, and Africans in Yiwu. He is the official film selector for First Youth Film Festival and Beijing International Film Festival.

Denghua Zhang is a Research Fellow at the Department of Pacific Affairs at Australian National University. His research focuses on international relations, development studies, Pacific studies,...

Denghua Zhang is a Research Fellow at the Department of Pacific Affairs at Australian National University. His research focuses on international relations, development studies, Pacific studies, Chinese foreign policy, and international aid.

Zhang Baohui is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the author of China’s Assertive Nuclear Posture: State...

Zhang Baohui is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the author of China’s Assertive Nuclear Posture: State Security in an Anarchic International Order (Routledge, 2015), which uses structural realism to study China’s nuclear posture and Sino-U.S. strategic stability.

Claire Zhang is a Chinese-American English major at Yale University, where she writes for a number of publications.

Claire Zhang is a Chinese-American English major at Yale University, where she writes for a number of publications.

Zhang Xiaowu, born in 1972, is an art teacher and a freelance photographer based in Rui’an, a county-level city in China’s southeastern Zhejiang province. Zhang started making photos in 2007 and has...

Zhang Xiaowu, born in 1972, is an art teacher and a freelance photographer based in Rui’an, a county-level city in China’s southeastern Zhejiang province. Zhang started making photos in 2007 and has won numerous awards. In 2015, Zhang was chosen as a grantee of the Seagate/Siyuefeng Young Photographers Project; in 2016, he was nominated for the Punctum Photography Award at the Lianzhou Photo Festival; in 2018 his work “Rural Recreation” won the Ruan Yizhong Documentary Photography Award. His works have been exhibited at Lianzhou Photo Festival and Lishui Photo Festival. In April 2018, Zhang had a solo show in Wenzhou city, Zhejiang.

Born in Xinjiang, Zhang is a contract photographer at CFP and SIPA China, and a frequent contributor to online photo magazines in China. Zhang joined the Chinese Photographer Society in 2006. His...

Born in Xinjiang, Zhang is a contract photographer at CFP and SIPA China, and a frequent contributor to online photo magazines in China. Zhang joined the Chinese Photographer Society in 2006. His work has been exhibited nationally and he was a contributing photographer for World Traveller, Photo Creator, and China National Travel, and contract photographer at Chinese Historic Geography.

Zhang Boshu is Editor of the Chinese-language China Strategic Analysis and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He was a Professor in the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese...

Zhang Boshu is Editor of the Chinese-language China Strategic Analysis and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He was a Professor in the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, until December, 2009, when he was forced to leave because of political persecution.Zhang has published more than 10 books in past 20 years, including Marxism and Human Sociobiology: The Perspective of Economic Reform in China (1994, SUNY Press, in English); From May Fourth to June Fourth: Critique of Chinese Dictatorship in 20th Century (2008, Hong Kong, in Chinese); A Feasibility Report on Chinese Institutional Reforms (completed version) (2012, Hong Kong, in Chinese); and Nine Thought Trends in Today’s China (2015, Hong Kong, in Chinese).

Zhang Yanqiu is the Deputy Dean of Journalism and the Director of the Africa Communication Research Centre at the Communications University of China in Beijing. Zhang is a pioneer in the field of...

Zhang Yanqiu is the Deputy Dean of Journalism and the Director of the Africa Communication Research Centre at the Communications University of China in Beijing. Zhang is a pioneer in the field of media literacy research in China. Her 2012 dissertation, “Understanding Media Literacy: Origins, Paradigms and Approaches,” was among the first in-depth Chinese studies in the field. Zhang has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Zizhu Zhang recently graduated with an M.P.A. from Columbia University, with a focus on energy and finance. Born and raised in southern China, she spent most of her formative years in the U.K. and...

Zizhu Zhang recently graduated with an M.P.A. from Columbia University, with a focus on energy and finance. Born and raised in southern China, she spent most of her formative years in the U.K. and worked across Africa and China in her 20s. She was formerly a Nairobi-based correspondent and worked for Caixin Media as an investigative and environment journalist in Beijing. Her reporting on China’s investments in Africa and China’s climate and environmental policies appeared on Initium Media, Carbon Brief, Caixin Media, and China Dialogue. In her career, she wants to focus on clean energy finance and work on international climate policy. Zhang also holds an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a B.A from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Jack Zhang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. His dissertation explores the role of economic...

Jack Zhang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. His dissertation explores the role of economic interdependence in the political economy of trade and conflict in East Asia. His research focuses on international political economy, international security, Chinese politics, and U.S.-China Relations. He was previously a China researcher at the Eurasia Group in Washington, DC. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego

Jieqian Zhang is a graphics editor at The Wall Street Journal. She recently graduated from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. During her time in Berkeley, she was...

Jieqian Zhang is a graphics editor at The Wall Street Journal. She recently graduated from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. During her time in Berkeley, she was able to ignite her passion for data and graphic reporting, as well as international reporting. She was the 2016 Google News Lab Fellow at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Before that, she worked at Google Trends as a contributing graphic designer and was a visuals intern at ChinaFile.

Lijie Zhang is a photographer born in Beijing. She has an M.A. in Photography from the University of the Arts London and an M.A. in Journalism from Beijing Normal University. She is currently working...

Lijie Zhang is a photographer born in Beijing. She has an M.A. in Photography from the University of the Arts London and an M.A. in Journalism from Beijing Normal University. She is currently working on a number of long-term projects, including “The Innocent: Mentally Disordered Artists,” “The Rare: Rare Diseases in Mainland China,” “Midnight Tweedle,” and many more. She is the winner of the Magnum Foundation Human Rights and Photography fellowship; the Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award; silver prize in the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, among other awards. Zhang’s work has been featured worldwide, including in The New York Times Lens Blog, Newsweek, burn, VICE, and China Daily. Additionally, she has been involved in multiple exhibitions in New York, Montreal, Aarhus-Denmark, London, Lianzhou, and Pingyao.

Born in Kunming, China, Hai Zhang is an architect by training and profession. Photography was at first a work-related activity that became a tool to question the contexts of his identity, whether...

Born in Kunming, China, Hai Zhang is an architect by training and profession. Photography was at first a work-related activity that became a tool to question the contexts of his identity, whether rooted in his homeland of China, or the U.S., where he has lived since 2000.Zhang has been traveling regularly to China since 2008 to photograph the ever-changing and sprawling urbanized landscape. The four-year journey has constituted the exhibition Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost, a project with site-specific installation and projection. This project has been exhibited in France, Bangladesh, and Turkey.Zhang was a fellow of the Rafael Vinoly Architecture Research Fellowship from 2009 to 2010. The work he did through this fellowship has been included in the book Pressures and Distortions: City Dwellers and Builders and Critics.Zhang’s long-term project on Alabama, To Kill A Mockingbird, was included...

Feng Zhang is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and an Adjunct Professor at the National...

Feng Zhang is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and an Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of South China Sea studies in China. He is the author of Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History (Stanford University Press, 2015).

Kiki Tianqi Zhao is a freelance writer based in China and the U.S. From 2012 to 2017, she was a journalist based in the Beijing bureaus of The Financial Times and then The New York Times. She holds...

Kiki Tianqi Zhao is a freelance writer based in China and the U.S. From 2012 to 2017, she was a journalist based in the Beijing bureaus of The Financial Times and then The New York Times. She holds an M.A. from Yale University Council of East Asian Studies, and a B.A. from the Communication University of China. She is currently affiliated with the Fairbank Center For Chinese Studies as an Associate in Research.

Michael Zhao is a multimedia producer who focuses on environmental issues in China. From 2003 to 2005, he was a News Assistant in the Beijing Bureau of The New York Times, where he worked with...

Michael Zhao is a multimedia producer who focuses on environmental issues in China. From 2003 to 2005, he was a News Assistant in the Beijing Bureau of The New York Times, where he worked with Pulitzer Prize winners Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley. While reporting with Yardley on the shrinking Crescent Lake in Dunhuang, Gansu province, a tourist spot along the ancient Silk Road in Northwestern China, Zhao took a picture with his point-and-shoot camera that ended up being used on the front page of the Times despite his lack of professional training in photography at that time.Zhao later attended the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he studied multimedia journalism and switched focus from print to new media. He finished a thesis project in multimedia about electronic waste from developed countries being dumped in China. This project was advised by...

Zhao Hai is a research fellow at the National Strategy Institute of Tsinghua University. His research focuses on U.S.-China relations, China’s civil-military integration, economic relations in the...

Zhao Hai is a research fellow at the National Strategy Institute of Tsinghua University. His research focuses on U.S.-China relations, China’s civil-military integration, economic relations in the Asia-Pacific, and counterterrorism in Western China and Southeast Asia. He graduated from Peking University with a Master’s degree in Asia-Pacific regional studies. He received his Ph.D. in international history from the University of Chicago.

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-U.S. Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He was a Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover...

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-U.S. Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He was a Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College in Maryland, an Associate Professor of Government and East Asian Politics at Colby College in Maine, and a visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at the University of California, San Diego.Zhao is the founder and Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and the author and editor of more than a dozen of books, including The Construction of Chinese Nationalism in the Early 21st Century: Domestic Sources and International Implications (2014); The Rise of China and Transformation of the U.S.-China...

Zheng Zhu is an independent analyst who focuses on risk analysis, emerging markets, and Chinese outbound investment. He provides in-depth analysis for Chinese investors on international stock markets...

Zheng Zhu is an independent analyst who focuses on risk analysis, emerging markets, and Chinese outbound investment. He provides in-depth analysis for Chinese investors on international stock markets, real estate and political economy for countries along the Belt and Road Initiative. Zhu is also a columnist on international affairs for the Chinese financial newspaper Caixin and he is also a research fellow at the China-CEE Institute, the first Chinese think tank that is independently registered in Europe. He has been to more than 40 countries and is now doing a six-month field study on Chinese investments in Europe from Serbia to Belarus.

Yu Zheng is a Senior Lecturer in Asian Business and International Human Resource Management at the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. Educated at Peking University (B.A. in...

Yu Zheng is a Senior Lecturer in Asian Business and International Human Resource Management at the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. Educated at Peking University (B.A. in Japanese Studies; B.Eco. in Economics) and the National University of Singapore (M.A. in Japanese Studies), Zheng received her Ph.D. (London) in 2010. Zheng’s research focuses on work organization and employment relations in multinational firms, particularly those from China and Japan. Her first research monograph explores changes in workplaces brought about by the increasing influence of foreign investment in China. She has also written publications in Work, Employment and Society, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management Studies, and other journals. In a current research project, Zheng investigates the employment practices adopted by Chinese...

Rui Zhong is a research and program analyst based in the Washington, D.C. area. She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in International Studies...

Rui Zhong is a research and program analyst based in the Washington, D.C. area. She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in International Studies from Emory University. She has completed coursework at Peking University and earned a graduate certificate at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in China. Her research interests include China’s role in the East Asian Political Economy and how nationalist interests can impact business, technology, and cultural policies.

Zhou Ruijin is the author and editor of several books and serves as a Ph.D. Advisor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He graduated from Fudan University with a degree in Journalism. Upon...

Zhou Ruijin is the author and editor of several books and serves as a Ph.D. Advisor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He graduated from Fudan University with a degree in Journalism. Upon graduating, he served as a reporter, editor, commentator, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the Liberation Daily, the daily newspaper of the Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1991, under the pen name Huangfu Ping, he was in charge of writing a series of editorials entitled “Reform and Liberalization Need New Thinking” that drew worldwide attention. From 1993 to 2000, he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People’s Daily.

Youyou Zhou is a visual journalist with an interest in data, design, and reporting. She works in digital design and interactive graphics at Graphicacy in Washington, D.C. Zhou recently received dual...

Youyou Zhou is a visual journalist with an interest in data, design, and reporting. She works in digital design and interactive graphics at Graphicacy in Washington, D.C. Zhou recently received dual bachelor’s degrees in the Convergence Journalism program at the University of Missouri and the print journalism program at Fudan University. She has worked in newspaper design, science reporting, and video production. She is a contributor to the ChinaFile partner site CNPolitics.

Zhou Na is an independent photographer and multimedia storyteller from China. She has worked as a freelancer based in Beijing since 2015. She was chosen as one of nine fellows of Magnum Foundation’s...

Zhou Na is an independent photographer and multimedia storyteller from China. She has worked as a freelancer based in Beijing since 2015. She was chosen as one of nine fellows of Magnum Foundation’s Photography and Social Justice Program in 2017.Zhou started her career in rural China. In 2012, she participated in a documentary project, “Left-Behind: The Rural Elderly,” co-produced by IFChina. This photography project enabled her and her seven project partners to go back to their own villages and visit hundreds of left-behind senior citizens living alone in order to document their experiences, stories, and feelings. The photographs and films were exhibited at factories and universities in Guangdong province. After, Zhou joined IFChina Original Studio, a non-governmental organization based in China’s southeastern Jiangxi province. IFChina is one of the nation’s pioneer organizations in...

Raymond Zhou is a Beijing-based bilingual writer. He is known mostly as a film, theater, and cultural critic. On top of being the author of nineteen books, he also makes hundreds of media and other...

Raymond Zhou is a Beijing-based bilingual writer. He is known mostly as a film, theater, and cultural critic. On top of being the author of nineteen books, he also makes hundreds of media and other public appearances every year, such as serving as a juror for festivals and awards.Zhou’s stature as a film critic and film industry expert is acknowledged by regulators, academia, grassroots and the mainstream press in China. His Chinese-language book Hollywood Revealed is the first study in China of the mechanisms of America’s movie industry that influenced both industry insiders and the general reading public. His three-volume film guide covers 5,500 movies from all over the world, cementing his reputation among China’s cinephiles.Some of his English-language writing is collected in X-Ray: Examining the China Enigma, a collection of his best op-ed columns from 2005 to 2008; and China the...

Yu Zhou is a professor of Geography at Vassar College. She received her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Minnesota in 1995. She has done research on globalization and high-tech industry, and...

Yu Zhou is a professor of Geography at Vassar College. She received her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Minnesota in 1995. She has done research on globalization and high-tech industry, and urban green building development in China, and she is the author of the book The Inside Story of China’s High-Tech Industry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007) and co-editor of China as an Innovation Nation (Oxford University Press, 2016). Zhou also has done research in ethnic communities and transnational business networks in the United States. She is a recipient of numerous national and international awards and grants, and was selected as one of the Public Intellectual Fellows by the National Committee of United States-China Relations.

Tailai Zhou covers the environment for Caixin, and is based in Beijing. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism with a Master’s in Journalism and a B.A. in...

Tailai Zhou covers the environment for Caixin, and is based in Beijing. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism with a Master’s in Journalism and a B.A. in Sociology.

Zhou Fei joined TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, in September 2014 as Head of the China Program. Zhou is a primary representative of TRAFFIC, a collaboration between the World Wildlife...

Zhou Fei joined TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, in September 2014 as Head of the China Program. Zhou is a primary representative of TRAFFIC, a collaboration between the World Wildlife Federation and the International Union for the Conversation of Nature, in its work throughout China. He is responsible for implementation in China and also contributes to the strategic development of TRAFFIC’s global conservation program, with particular emphasis on China.Before joining TRAFFIC, Zhou worked for the British Standards Institution (BSI) as Director of Strategy & Government Affairs, and he was responsible for the strategic planning of BSI China as well as for exchange and cooperation with government departments. Before BSI, he was responsible for government and public affairs at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), leading the work of sustainable...

Wendy Zhou is a doctoral researcher in Communication Studies at Georgia State University (GSU) and a media freelancer. She mainly studies political discourse, transnational journalism, diaspora media...

Wendy Zhou is a doctoral researcher in Communication Studies at Georgia State University (GSU) and a media freelancer. She mainly studies political discourse, transnational journalism, diaspora media, and communication. Before joining GSU, she served as the Chinese Editor of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and as a research assistant at the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong, where she earned a Master’s degree in journalism.Her articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Quartz, The Financial Times (Chinese version), and Initium Media, among other outlets.

Zhou Dan is a practicing lawyer based in Shanghai. As one of few people to have come out as gay to Chinese local, national, and international media, he is a pioneering advocate for full and equal...

Zhou Dan is a practicing lawyer based in Shanghai. As one of few people to have come out as gay to Chinese local, national, and international media, he is a pioneering advocate for full and equal recognition of rights related to sexual orientation and gender identity in China. Over the past decade, he has been working towards these goals through consulting services, public education, public policy, and legal advocacy, as well as training sessions and conferences.In addition, in 2009 he published Pleasure and Discipline: Jurisprudential Imagination of Same-Sex Desire in Chinese Modernity, a ground-breaking monograph on the dynamics of same-sex desire, law, and modernity in China. He speaks on LGBT rights issues at workshops, seminars, and symposia in China, the United States, Germany, and other countries.

Vincent Mingqi Zhu is currently a M.A candidate studying International Relations and Conflict Management at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is a former...

Vincent Mingqi Zhu is currently a M.A candidate studying International Relations and Conflict Management at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is a former reporter for Phoenix TV Hong Kong.

Zhu Feng is Executive Director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea and a Professor of International Relations at Nanjing University. He was formerly Deputy President...

Zhu Feng is Executive Director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea and a Professor of International Relations at Nanjing University. He was formerly Deputy President of the Institute of Strategic & International Studies and a Professor in the School of International Studies at Peking University. Zhu started his current position in August 2014. He specializes in East Asian regional security, power relations and maritime security in the Asia-Pacific, and North Korea’s nuclear proliferation issue. His forthcoming book is America, China, and the Struggle for World Order: Ideas, Traditions, Historical Legacies, and Global Visions (co-edited with G. John Ikenbery and Wang Jisi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Zhu Mo is originally from Changsha, Hunan province and now lives in Beijing. He graduated from Hunan Normal University in 2007, where he studied photography. He is a photo editor at Jiemian. In 2012...

Zhu Mo is originally from Changsha, Hunan province and now lives in Beijing. He graduated from Hunan Normal University in 2007, where he studied photography. He is a photo editor at Jiemian. In 2012, he was a nominee for the Three Shadows Photography Award, and he exhibited in the 2013 Beijing Photo Biennial.

Wei Zhu is an Editorial/Program Associate with the religion program of the Social Science Research Council in New York City. He graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Economics and...

Wei Zhu is an Editorial/Program Associate with the religion program of the Social Science Research Council in New York City. He graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Economics and International Relations.

Qiaoyi (Joy) Zhuang is the New York correspondent for Caixin magazine, the Americas editor for Globus, and a guest host of the podcast “IAmElection.” A graduate of Syracuse University, Zhuang majored...

Qiaoyi (Joy) Zhuang is the New York correspondent for Caixin magazine, the Americas editor for Globus, and a guest host of the podcast “IAmElection.” A graduate of Syracuse University, Zhuang majored in International Relations, concentrating on U.S.-China Relations and NGO management. Zhuang previously interned at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, at the United Nations, and at the American Enterprise Institute. As a Chinese citizen, she is particularly interested in Chinese civil society and stays connected with Chinese NGOs.

Tee Zhuo is an intern with ChinaFile. He is a rising senior from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, a new liberal arts college jointly founded by Yale University and the National University of Singapore...

Tee Zhuo is an intern with ChinaFile. He is a rising senior from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, a new liberal arts college jointly founded by Yale University and the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently assisting in various research projects at Yale and NUS, including the effect of political centralization on democratic competition, the political economy of gender, the effect of emotions on political participation, and the compatibility of human rights with neo-Confucianism.

James Zimmerman is the Managing Partner of the Beijing office of the international law firm Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the American Chamber of...

James Zimmerman is the Managing Partner of the Beijing office of the international law firm Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce China and served as the Chairman of the chamber in 2007, 2008, 2015, and 2016. Zimmerman is the author of a number of books and articles on China and international trade including the well-recognized China Law Deskbook, a publication of the American Bar Association. Zimmerman has been a registered foreign lawyer with the Ministry of Justice since 1998 and is recognized as one of Asia’s leading business lawyers in the Asialaw Leading Lawyers Survey and is listed as a Leading Individual in the category of Corporate/M&A for foreign law firms in China of the Legal 500 Asia Pacific guide to Asia’s commercial law firms. Zimmerman is a member of the California Bar and admitted to...

Zong Ming is a Producer and Director for Arrow Factory Video. She graduated with a Master’s degree in International Journalism from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2016. Upon graduating, she joined...

Zong Ming is a Producer and Director for Arrow Factory Video. She graduated with a Master’s degree in International Journalism from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2016. Upon graduating, she joined Arrow Factory Video as a founding member. “I Married a Beautiful Ukrainian Woman and So Can You” is her third short video work as a producer and a director. Her main focus is teen culture.

Mimi Zou is the inaugural Fangda Fellow in Chinese Commercial Law at the University of Oxford. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Law and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees from the University of...

Mimi Zou is the inaugural Fangda Fellow in Chinese Commercial Law at the University of Oxford. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Law and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees from the University of Oxford and graduated with first class honors degrees in Law, Economics, and Social Sciences (University Medal) from the University of Sydney. Zou is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and lawyer in New South Wales, Australia.Prior to her current appointment, Zou was the R. Randle Edwards Fellow at Columbia Law School (2017); Assistant Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014-2017); Junior Dean at St John’s College, Oxford (2011-2014); Senior Researcher at Utrecht University (2010); and Senior Tutor at the University of Sydney Business School (2008-2009). She has also taught and researched at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang...