Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

About the authors

Jørgen Delman (约恩·德尔曼）is a Professor of China Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University. He has been Professor of China Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies since 2009. He is responsible for contemporary Chinese society and politics within the department. Jørgen has extensive experience from working with Chinese, international and Danish public, private and societal stakeholders and clients in China. Jørgen was one of the founders of ThinkChina.dk. His publications deal with Chinese politics and China’s new leadership, China’s climate change and renewable energy politics, China’s energy security, the architecture of the biofuels market in China, the breakdown of the dairy value chain in connection with a food security scandal in 2008, sustainable city development and climate change and global positioning of Chinese cities.

Karl Koch (卡尔·科赫) is Emeritus Professor of Modern languages at London South Bank University and Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Management, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, University Sorbonne IV, Paris and Luis Vives (CEU) San Pablo University, Madrid. He is a past Chair of the Association for the Study of German Politics. He has published widely on German and Comparative Industrial Relations and German Area Studies. He is currently researching on European models of employee participation and cultural diversity in management.

Benjamin Chemouni (本杰明·切莫尼) is LSE fellow, teaching the course of the Department of International Development, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). After taught French in Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China he did MSc China in Comparative Perspective, and obtained PhD at LSE. Building upon his PhD topic the politics of state effectiveness in Burundi and Rwanda: Ruling elite legitimacy and the imperative of state performance, as a researcher at University of Manchester he conducted two research project: the comparative politics of core public sector reform: leadership, accountability and adaptation in Ghana, Malawi, rwanda and Uganda, and the political economy of social protection expansion in Africa.

Sancia Wai-San (溫慧珊) is Resident Fellows Stanley Ho East Asia College (SHEAC), Macau, China. She obtained PhD at the Department of Geography & Environment, London School of Economics & Political Science. Her research interests and experience span a wide spectrum of topics related to globalization, including services trade (offshoring and outsourcing), knowledge-intensive business services, local and regional economic development, urban land use, transnational movement and networks of skilled labor, and knowledge transfer, with a geographic focus on East Asia.

Lei Zhang (张蕾) was a PhD candidate at the department of Social Policy and Social Work, the University of York. Her research interests include: politics of welfare reform, social policy, especially in China, East Asia welfare regime. brey, Patricia. 1991. (trans.) A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.