Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

About the authors

Jing Bian is a Senior Teaching Fellow in SOAS, University of London. Her research interests focus on comparative and international financial regulation, corporate governance, cross border merger and acquisition, Chinese law, law and economics, and Islamic finance.

Emily Taylor (艾米莉·泰勒) is a Research Associate in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research focused on an international NGO working in the field of child welfare in China.

Lisa Fischler (丽莎·菲施勒) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. Her research interests include gender and women’s organizations in Hong Kong and South China.

Guo Diandian (郭点点) was an MA Student at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands.

Marola Padín Novas (马罗拉·帕丁·诺瓦斯) has an MA in Chinese Studies at SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies. She has studied at the University of Santiago de Compostela and SOAS and she is currently an analyst at the OPCh (Observatory of Chinese Policy) in Galicia, Spain. She has research interests in the fields of cultural diversity, regional development, Chinese foreign policy, gender and the Internet.

Dr Kristie Thomas (克里斯蒂·托马斯 ) is a Lecturer in Business Law at Nottingham University Business School in the UK. Her research interests include legal developments in China, international trade, international property rights, the WTO and its role in development, notably the development of legal systems in developing countries.