Contributors (Issue 1, 2022)
Mark BO is the China Global Programme Director at Inclusive Development International. He works globally with local civil society partners to monitor and advocate for improved environmental and social practices in Chinese overseas projects. He has published extensively on the trends, impacts, and regulation of China’s global finance and investment, particularly with respect to land and natural resource rights and the environment.
Nicholas BOSONI is an Italian documentary photographer based in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic. With a background in social sciences, his work touches upon themes related to modernisation, urbanisation, traditional livelihoods, and natural resources. He collaborates with various international nongovernmental organisations and development projects in Laos. Nicholas is currently committed to documenting the economic transition ongoing in Laos, a long term work that will eventually result in a photo book.
Jessica DICARLO is a geographer and the Chevalier Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Transportation and Development in China at the University of British Columbia’s Institute of Asian Research and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. She studies global China in Asia from an ethnographic perspective and has worked in Tibet, Nepal, Laos, and India. Her research has been published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Geoforum, Ecology and Society, Area, and Ambio, and she co-edited The Rise of the Infrastructure State (Bristol University Press, 2022).
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).
Paulina GARZÓN is the Director of Latin America Sustentable, an Ecuadorian NGO with a focus in Latin America. She is an Ecuadorian with 25 years of experience working on issues related to the environment, human rights and international finance. Lately, Paulina has focused her work on Chinese investments in Latin America, with particular attention on Chinese environmental and social guidelines for overseas investments.
Charlotte GOODBURN is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Development at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. She researches rural–urban migration and comparative rural and urban development in China and India, with a particular focus on labour migration, household dynamics, welfare and other institutions, and identity registration systems.
Ho-fung HUNG is the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He researches global political economy, protest, nation-state formation, and East Asian development, with a recent focus on money, politics, and empires. He is the author of Protest with Chinese Characteristics (Columbia University Press, 2011), The China Boom (Columbia University Press, 2015), City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Clash of Empires: From ‘Chimerica’ to the ‘New Cold War’ (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Arthur KAUFMAN is an editorial assistant for the Made in China Journal and Global China Pulse Journal. He graduated from the dual master’s degree program between Sciences Po and Peking University, where he studied human rights and international relations. Previously, he was a Writing and Speaking Fellow at NYU Shanghai.
Jan KNOERICH is Senior Lecturer in the Economy of China at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. His research examines the business, political economy, and development dimensions of China’s financial internationalisation, including outward foreign direct investment, the internationalisation of the renminbi, and China’s creation of international institutions.
Latinoamérica Sustentable (LAS) conducts research, raises awareness, develops advocacy tools, and promotes collaboration among NGOs in Latin America, China and other parts of the world. LAS is legally established as an Ecuadorian organization and works to protect the environment and local communities within the context of Chinese development finance in Latin America.
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).
Danqing LI is Senior Strategist for the Sunrise Project’s China Program, which focuses on decarbonising China’s overseas energy finance and accelerating green investment. With a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Danqing has expertise in power market analysis, economic assessment, as well as environmental modelling, including of air pollution and water stress, in China, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Siman LI is Program Associate for the Sunrise Project’s China Program. Siman previously worked for four years in corporate social responsibility consulting and project management. Siman holds an MA in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University and a bachelor’s degree in Finance Accounting and Management from the University of Nottingham.
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.
Neil LOUGHLIN is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at City, University of London. His main research interests include authoritarian politics and the political economy of development. Most of Neil’s work has focused on Southeast Asia, where he previously worked for several local and international nongovernmental organisations as a human rights worker and development professional.
Vida MACIKENAITE is Assistant Professor at the International University of Japan. She holds graduate degrees from Keio University in Japan and Fudan University in China. While her major research interest centres on China’s foreign relations, recently she has been looking into perceptions of China in Europe. She is also interested in authoritarian regimes and state capacity in comparative perspective.
Ryan Martínez MITCHELL is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in Law and Archaia Qualification in the Study of Ancient and Premodern Societies from Yale University (2017), a JD from Harvard Law School (2012), and a BA from The New School (2007). His monograph Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law, which explores modern China’s entry into the international legal order, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Maria REPNIKOVA is an expert on Chinese political communication, and an Associate Professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University. She has written widely on China’s media politics, including propaganda, critical journalism, digital nationalism, and soft power. Maria is the author of the award-winning book, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2017), as well as the recent, Chinese Soft Power (Cambridge Global China Element Series, 2022).
Shawn SHIEH is the founder of Social Innovations Advisory, a consultancy dedicated to building a resilient civil society in the Global South. He is a Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute and a Research Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He previously worked at China Labour Bulletin, and China Development Brief. Shawn received his PhD in political science from Columbia University, has published extensively on Chinese overseas investment and civil society, and blogs about NGOs in China.
Austin STRANGE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines China’s contemporary and historical roles in the world economy and global development. He is the co-author of Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and has recently published articles in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Contemporary China.
Pei-hua YU is a journalist covering energy transition and Chinese investment and infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia. She is currently based in Taiwan and writes for publications around the world. She was previously based in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Yangon.
Hong ZHANG is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program in 2021–22. From late 2022, she will be a China Public Policy fellow at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Her research interests include China’s political economy, international development cooperation and foreign aid, and the global expansion of Chinese state-owned enterprises.