Carolyn Cartier, Professor of Geography, University of Southern California

Linda Li Chelan, Associate Professor of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong

Jane Duckett, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Politics, University of Glasgow

David SG Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Sydney

Rachel Murphy, University Lecturer in the Sociology of China, Oxford University

Tim Oakes, Associate Professor in Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder

Louisa Schein, Associate Professor in Anthropology, Rutgers University

Yao Xianguo, Professor of Economics and Foreign Trade, Zhejiang Univeristy, China

Xiaowei Zang, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Sheffield