Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008 and is author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (2014). Based on eight years of living and working in Beijing, the
Gordon Mathews is a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Department of Anthropology, and has done extensive research into the African communities in Guangzhou and Chung King Mansion in Hong Kong. He will be speaking about the low end
Dr Rana Mitter is a Professor in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China (California,
He Fan is Assistant Director at the Institute of World Economics and Politics within the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the leading think tank for China’s top leadership. He is one of the top economists in China and one of
Adam Minter has covered a range of topics for publications that include The Atlantic, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, Mother Jones, Scientific American, ARTnews, and Sierra. In addition to his