Andrew Field is Associate Dean at the Shanghai Campus of Hult International Business School, as well as a scholar of Chinese literature and culture. In addition to his recent book, Mu Shiying: China’s Lost Modernist (2014), he is also author
Steve Tsang is Director of the China Policy Institute and Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham’s School of Contemporary Chinese Studies. He has previously worked as Professorial Fellow, Dean and Director of the Asian Studies Centre at
Matt Ferchen is a resident scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, where he runs the China and the Developing World Program. His research focuses on the governance of China’s urban informal economy, debates about the “China model
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