Ge Zhaoguang, M.A. (1984), Peking University, is Professor of History at Fudan University, Shanghai. He is widely published in Chinese, where he is especially well known for his three-volume 《中国思想史》(Zhongguo sixiang shi, An Intellectual History of China) (Fudan University Press, 2001).

Jesse Field, Ph.D. (2012), University of Minnesota, is a teacher, translator and writer in Beijing.

Qin Fang, Ph.D. (2012), University of Minnesota, is Associate Professor of History at Capital Normal University, Beijing. She is interested in women's history and urban studies of modern China. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled "In Search for Respectability: The Making of Women's Education in Treaty Ports of China, 1898-1912."