Jacob Dreyer is a writer and editor based in Shanghai, where he has resided for over a decade. Jacob shares his thoughts on China's views of the United States and some of the overlooked developments in China.
Emily Jin is an East Asian language and literature Ph.D. candidate at Yale working as a translator of Chinese sci-fi. Her most recent English-to-Chinese translation, "The Search for Philip K. Dick," the first biography of Philip K. Dick in Chinese, was published in July 2020 by Eight Light Minutes.
Taisu Zhang is a professor of law at Yale University, known for his recent work on the expansion of the Chinese administrative state down to the subdistrict and neighborhood level along with Beijing's shift from “performance legitimacy” as the foundation of political rule, and more toward legality.
Dr. Jamie Gaida is a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) specializing in statistics, research ethics, data science, computer algorithms, software development, and machine learning. He recently published a piece on The Critical Technology Tracker and how Western democracies are losing the global technological competition.
Benjamin Qiu is a partner with the law firm Loeb & Loeb handling venture capital financing for Chinese companies and others. He is also a registered arbitrator with the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration. He recently wrote for Nikkei Asian Review on China's anti-corruption agency, now having its financial sector in sight.
Jaap Grolleman shares his insights from living in China over the past four and a half years.
Kristy Bryant, a doctoral candidate in China studies at the University of Oxford, digs deeper into China’s “neutral” stance on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
China scholar Abbey Heffer spends her time breaking down Chinese authoritarianism on social media. This is what she had to say about her projects, and about China’s local experimentation under Xi.
Tu Le, managing director of Sino Adult Insights, talks about the rise of the Chinese EV industry, BYD's glowing success, and EV trends to watch out for in 2023.