Carl Minzner

on February 5, 2014

Carl Minzner is Professor of Law at Fordham University. An expert in Chinese law and governance, he is the author of End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise (Oxford University Press, 2018; paperback, 2019). He has also written extensively on these topics in both academic journals and the popular press. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor.

Minzner has served as Senior Counsel for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. He was a 2006-2007 International Affairs Fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Yale-China Legal Education Fellow at the Xibei Institute of Politics and Law in Xi’an, China. He has also worked as an Associate at McCutchen & Doyle (Palo Alto, CA) and as a Law Clerk for Hon. Raymond Clevenger of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Minzner holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a M.I.A. from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Yong Cai

on February 5, 2014

Yong Cai is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Cai is a social demographer, specializing in Chinese demography in a global context of low fertility and rapid aging. In a recent paper titled “China’s New Demographic Reality,” published in Population and Development Review, he documents the drastic demographic changes in China between 2000 and 2010, and shows that China has entered a new demographic era characterized by prolonged low fertility, elevated sex ratios, rapid aging, fast urbanization, and major geographic redistribution. His research has attracted both academic and public attentions, including reports in Science, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

Youyou Zhou

on February 5, 2014

Youyou Zhou is a visual journalist with an interest in data, design, and reporting. She works in digital design and interactive graphics at Graphicacy in Washington, D.C. Zhou recently received dual bachelor’s degrees in the Convergence Journalism program at the University of Missouri and the print journalism program at Fudan University. She has worked in newspaper design, science reporting, and video production. She is a contributor to the ChinaFile partner site CNPolitics.

Bruce Gilley

on February 5, 2014

Bruce Gilley is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. His research centers on the politics and policy of conflict, the environment, democracy, and development. He is a specialist on the international and comparative politics of China and Asia.

Gilley is the author of four books, including The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy (Columbia University Press, 2009) and China’s Democratic Future: How it Will Happen and Where it Will Lead (Columbia University Press, 2004), in addition to several co-edited volumes. His scholarly articles have appeared in journals including Comparative Political Studies and the European Journal of Political Research and his policy articles in journals including Foreign Affairs and the Washington Quarterly. A member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Democracy and the Journal of Contemporary China, Gilley has received grants from the Smith-Richardson Foundation and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. He received a Master of Philosophy in Economics from Oxford University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar from 1989 to 1991, and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar from 2004 to 2006.

Zha Daojiong

on February 5, 2014

Zha Daojiong is a professor in the School of International Studies and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University. His areas of expertise include international political economy and China’s international economic relations, particularly the fields of energy and natural resources, development aid, and the economics-political nexus in the Asia Pacific region. His research has extended to political and social risk-management for Chinese corporations engaged in non-financial investments abroad, including the publication of the edited volumes Chinese Investment Overseas: Case Studies on Environmental and Social Risks (Peking University Press, 2014) and Risk Management under the Belt and Road Initiative: Economic and Societal Dimensions (Oceanic Press, 2017).

He was invited to serve as non-resident fellow in a number of public policy think tanks and advisory member on several international exchange associations, including the China chapter of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSPAC) and the China Association for International Exchange.

He joined the faculty of Peking University in 2007 and held prior positions at the Renmin University of China, the International University of Japan, and the University of Macau. He studied at the East-West Center and the University of Hawaii, where he earned a Doctoral degree in Political Science.

Annie Jieping Zhang

on February 5, 2014

Annie Jieping Zhang is a Nieman Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. A media entrepreneur, journalist, and columnist, she is the Founder & CEO of Matters Lab, a decentralized social media platform, and Nowhere Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Taipei that has cultivated a distinctive cultural community bridging Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Zhang also co-founded and was Editor-in-Chief of Initium Media, a Chinese-language online publication. She previously worked as an Editor at City Magazine; as Executive Editor-in-Chief for iSun Affairs, an online magazine; and as a reporter for Asia Week. From 2006 to 2015, she wrote extensively about the governance, politics, and social movements in mainland China and Hong Kong. She is currently working on a program that builds decentralized support networks for independent journalists who face censorship and political repression.

Zhang holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Hong Kong.

Bo Wang

on February 5, 2014

Bo Wang (born 1982, Chongqing) is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. He holds a Master’s in theoretical physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a Master’s in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York. His works have been exhibited internationally, at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, and the Times Museum in Guangzhou, among many others. He received a fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013 and is an attendee of the Berlinale Talents program in the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.

Zhang Mengqi

on February 5, 2014

Zhang Mengqi is currently a graduate student in the International Relations program at New York University, focusing on refugee studies and comparative politics. Before coming to the U.S., she received a B.A. in International Relations and Diplomacy from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Zhang is an intern with the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations, where she focuses on Chinese politics.

Bill Bishop

on February 5, 2014

Bill Bishop is an American who lived in Beijing from 2005-2015. He is the writer of the blogs Sinocism, where he collects links to news and interest pieces on China, and Digicha, where he writes about Chinese Internet and digital media. He is bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese and has experience working in both the U.S. and China.

Bishop co-founded CBS MarketWatch in 1997 and stayed until its sale in 2004 to Dow Jones. He has worked in several business roles over the years, the last as head of the MarketWatch consumer Internet business. He is currently an investor in and advisor to several start-up companies and provides China consulting services. Most recently, Bishop was CEO of Red Mushroom Studios, a Beijing-based developer and operator of online games.

Bishop formally studied Chinese language for six academic years and  has an M.A. in China Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a B.A. from Middlebury College. He has lived and worked in China on and off for over eight years since 1989, and continuously in Beijing since mid-2005. He is often quoted in major media such as Bloomberg, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The New York Times, and other publications.

In addition to writing Sinocism and Digicha, Bishop, now living in Washington, D.C., is an active user of Twitter @niubi and Sina Weibo @billbishop. He was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 foreign policy Twitterati and by Danwei as Twitter “Model Worker of the Year” for 2012.