Jo Lusby is Managing Director of Penguin North Asia. She joined the company in 2005 to establish Penguin’s China operation. Today, the company employs 30 people around the region, where Penguin acquires books for English language publication, establishes local language publishing partnerships, and imports
Vijay Vaitheeswaran is the China Business Editor and Shanghai Bureau Chief at The Economist, where his editorial responsibilities range from business and finance to science, technology and innovation. His is the author of Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of
Scott Kennedy (Ph.D., George Washington University, 2002), a proud graduate of Johns Hopkins-SAIS and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, is Director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business (RCCPB), Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and East Asian Languages
Robert Bickers is Professor of History and Director of the Historical Photographs of China Project at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 (2011), Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai (2003), and Britain
Leta Hong Fincher is an American doctoral candidate in Sociology at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her research on “leftover” women, gender inequality and the property market in China has been cited by many news organizations, including The Economist, New York Times,