About the authors
John Ashbourne (约翰·阿什伯恩), is Director and Emerging Markets Economist at Fitch Solution Inc. He is an experienced country risk analyst producing forward-looking macroeconomic, political, business environment, and financial market analysis on a variety of emerging and frontier markets. After obtained MSc China in Comparative Perspective, the London School of Economics and Political Science he worked at Capital Economics Ltd.,UK. Business Monitor International.
Huili Zheng (郑惠理，音), Associate teaching professor of arts, communications, and humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA. She was assistant professor of modern and classical languages at St. Vincent College.
Hilde De Weerdt (魏希德), taught teaches Chinese history at the University of Oxford (2007-2012), King’s College London (2012-2013) before becoming Chair Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University in 2013. Her past and current research focuses on Chinese and comparative imperial political culture, information technologies, social networks and intellectual history. She has recently published a monograph on the intellectual history of the civil service examinations and an edited volume on the cultural history of printing (AD 900-1400).
Martin Albrow (马丁·阿尔布劳) FAcSS, Honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association, Founding Editor of the journal International Sociology, Emeritus Professor of University of Wales, former Visiting Professor in the UK, USA, China, and Senior Fellow at LSE, UK, and University of Bonn, Germany. He is internationally known for his pioneering work on social and cultural globalization. His book, The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity (1996), won the European Amalfi Prize in 1997. His other books include Bureaucracy (1970), Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory (1990), Do Organizations Have Feelings? (1997), and Sociology: The Basics (1999), Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change (2014).
Sascha Klotzbücher (萨沙·克洛茨布雪尔) is currently a visiting professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. He has published on health politics in China and his research focus includes the relation of emotions, memory and transgenerational transmission of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Lik Hang Tsui (徐力恆) is Postdoctoral fellow, China Biographical Database, Harvard University. He obtained PhD in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, where he researched the epistolary culture of middle-period China. He is a Rhodes Scholar and holds a degree in History from Peking University and is currently the recipient of a doctoral fellowship from the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica in Taipei.
Laurent Bachmann (劳伦特·巴赫曼) works on marketing at Austrian Service Abroad. He worked at the Centre of Jewish Studies in Shanghai after obtaining a MSc China in Comparative Perspective at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. His personal interests include vegetarian food, books and theatre performances.
