Chief Editors
Ivan Franceschini is an incoming lecturer at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. He is a founder and co-editor of the Made in China Journal and The People’s Map of Global China / Global China Pulse. His latest books include Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi (ANU Press and Verso Books, 2019), Xinjiang Year Zero (ANU Press, 2021), Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour (Verso Books, 2022), and Global China as Method (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With Tommaso Facchin, he co-directed the documentaries Dreamwork China (2011) and Boramey: Ghosts in the Factory (2021). He is currently working on a new book on modern slavery in the online scam industry in East and Southeast Asia.
Ching Kwan Lee is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA. Her award-winning monographs on China’s turn to capitalism through the lens of labour include Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998), Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007), and The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017). Her recent co-edited volumes include The Social Question in the 21st Century: a Global View (2019) and Take Back Our Future: an Eventful Political Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (2019).
Nicholas Loubere is an Associate Professor in the Study of Modern China at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. His research examines socioeconomic development in rural China, with a particular focus on microcredit and migration. He co-edits the Made in China Journal.
Hong Zhang is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Her research and teaching focuses on global development and China’s role in it. Previously, she was a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Governance and Democratic Innovation, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (2022-2024), and postdoctoral fellow at the China-Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. She obtained her PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University in 2021.
Editorial Board
Now director of the China Media Project, leading the project’s research and partnerships, David joined the team in 2004 after completing his master’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He is currently an honorary lecturer at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre. He is the author of Dragons in Diamond Village (Penguin/Melville House, 2015), a book of reportage about urbanization and social activism in China, and co-editor of Investigative Journalism in China (HKU Press, 2010).
Han Cheng is a Max Weber Foundation Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His research examines the politics of global development, including development finance, ideologies, norms, and partnerships, with a focus on China, Asia, and BRICS+. Han received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and worked in policy research and investigative journalism before joining academia.
Romain Dittgen is a human geographer by training. He is interested in questions of urban change, both through the lens of materiality and forms of living together, as well as in the interplay between city-making and migration in Southern Africa. He works as an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning. He is also affiliated with the African Centre for Migration & Society (University of the Witwatersrand) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University).
Jessica DiCarlo is an Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Utah. She received her PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder and worked at the University of British Columbia. She contributes to debates on global China’s role in shaping development and resource politics, particularly across Asia. Her research has appeared in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Geopolitics, Geoforum, Ecology and Society, and Ambio. She is the co-editor of The Rise of the Infrastructure State (Bristol University Press, 2022).
Miriam Driessen is an anthropologist by training. Her work explores Chinese-led development from below, looking at issues such as migration, labour, gender and sexuality, language, and, more recently, law. She has published in various journals including American Anthropologist, The China Quarterly, and African Affairs and is the author of Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia (Hong Kong University Press, 2019).
Tin Hinane El Kadi is a political economy researcher. She is currently writing a PhD thesis at the London School of Economics and Political Science looking at China’s Digital Silk Road in North Africa. Her research interests include information and communications technology and development, the knowledge economy, China’s presence in Africa and the Middle East, and contemporary Algerian politics.
Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente is an Associate Professor in Political Economy at the University of Birmingham (UoB). He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2013 and worked at the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Leiden before joining UoB. His articles have appeared in journals such as Review of International Political Economy, Political Geography, Globalizations, The China Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, and Latin American Politics and Society.
Jordan Lynton Cox is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Mississippi State University. Her research uses an interdisciplinary approach to questions of race, diaspora, transnationalism, governance, and globalisation surrounding Chinese infrastructure development projects in Jamaica. Dr Lynton has been awarded research grants from Fulbright Hays and the Coordinating Council for Women in History. In 2020, she was a Fellow at the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
Igor Rogelja is a Lecturer in Global Politics at University College London, where he works mostly on international infrastructure and Chinese politics. He was previously based at the Lau China Institute at King’s College London and completed his doctoral studies at SOAS, University of London. He is interested in the politics of space and is involved in several research projects examining the effects of Chinese infrastructural investment in the so-called Belt and Road Initiative.
Konstantinos Tsimonis is a Lecturer in Chinese Society at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. He has a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies where he also taught courses on Chinese, East Asian, and comparative politics. His book The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2021. Konstantinos is currently working on a British Academy funded research project on China’s ‘Balkan Corridor’.
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