Chiara Zannini is Director of Content of YCW Brussels. She works at Polint, an EU consultancy operating in Brussels, specializing in EU Public Affairs and EU-Asia Relations. She is a co-founder of Track2Asia, a Brussels-based NGO aimed at improving cultural
Sim Chi Yin is a photographer based in Beijing, a member of VII Photo Agency. She is on the British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch list of photographers in 2014. She works on projects on social issues in the
Matt Ferchen is an associate professor of international relations at Tsinghua University; he is also a resident scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. His research focuses on the ‘China model’ of development, China’s urban informal economy, and its
Dr. Hans Steinmüller is a specialist in the anthropology of China at the London School of Economics, where he is convenor of the MSc program ‘China in Comparative Perspective’. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in the Enshi region of Hubei
Jie Li is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilization at Harvard University. As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai