Puck Engman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. A historian of postwar China, his research focuses on the history of socialism, including the socialist reorganization of state and society in the early People’s Republic and the transition from socialism to capitalism in the late twentieth century. His work also examines questions of law, restitution, and historical justice in modern China.

Victor Shih is Director of the 21st Century China Center and Professor and Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego. A leading scholar of Chinese political economy, his research focuses on Chinese banking, fiscal and exchange rate policy, and elite politics.

Yan Long is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and incoming Co-Director of Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies. She is a political sociologist whose research examines how globalization and China co-constitute one another, with a focus on public health, urban governance, international organizations, gender, and technology. Her current book project investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic, in tandem with rapidly expanding digital tools, has transformed China

Luis Flores is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. A historical sociologist working at the intersection of economic sociology, political economy, and comparative-historical methods, his research examines the regulatory boundaries between home and market and their implications for labor, housing, and social inequality. His recent work focuses on the politics of home-based moneymaking and the changing institutional foundations of economic security in the Uni

Cihan Tuğal is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research centers on political sociology, social theory, religion, capitalism and development, and social movements, with particular expertise in Islam and the Middle East, comparative and historical sociology, and ethnography. His recent work examines populism, neoliberalization, state capitalism, and the far right across Turkey, the United States, Hungary, Poland, India, and the Philippines.

Jamie Wong is an assistant professor at Princeton University, jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). She works at the interface of political and economic anthropology, science and technology studies, and China studies. Her research broadly focuses on the relationship between computational technologies and governance in China against the backdrop of emerging global systems of technology and finance. Through f

Le Lin is Associate Professo r of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Hisresearch centers on education, organizations, economic sociology, transnational sociology a nd Chinese society. His first book,The Fruits of Oppo rtunism: Noncompliance a nd the Evolution of China’s Supplemental Education Industry, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2022. This book won the Hono rable Mention of the Best Book Award on Asia/Transnational by the American Sociological Association i

AnnaLee Saxenian is Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. A leading scholar of regional development, innovation, and global technology networks, her research examines how people, ideas, and places combine to generate hubs of economic activity. She is widely known for influential work on Silicon Valley, immigrant entrepreneurship, and the global circulation of talent and technology.

Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society and Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. His research focuses on digital media, social movements, civic engagement, and the cultural and political transformation of contemporary China. A leading scholar of digital activism and communication, his work examines how media technologies resha

Angela Xiao Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her research sits at the intersection of media and communication studies and science and technology studies (STS), and has published in areas such as critical data studies, platform studies, the political economy of media, and Chinese political cultures. She is completing a book provisionally titledTranslucent Atmospherics: Media as Utility in China, a four-decade institutional

Zhifan Luo is an assistant professor at Department of Sociology Wilson College of Leadership and Civic Engagement, McMaster University. Her research investigates the intricate interplay among digital technologies, political power, and civil society. Two questions propel this investigation. In the authoritarian context, how do the rulers adapt to the digital age, and how does the adaptation affect civic life and discourses? In the democratic context, how does digital technology reshape civil rel

Steven K. Vogel is Director of the Political Economy Program, the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. A leading scholar of comparative political economy, his research focuses on markets, institutions, industrial policy, and the political economy of advanced industrialized countries, especially Japan. He is the author of Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work, which argues that markets a

Han Zhang is the Young Family Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. A political sociologist and computational social scientist, his research examines how digital surveillance technologies reshape social movements, state-society relations, and governance in authoritarian regimes, especially in China. Using computer vision, deep learning, and large-scale data, he studies protest dynamics in China, global surveillance camera densities, and the br

Prof. Ka Zeng is Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on China’s role in the global economy, in particularChinese trade policy, China’s behavior in global economic governance, and China-related trade dispute dynamics. Dr. Zengis the author or co-author ofTrade Threats, Trade Wars(Michigan, 2004),Greening China(Michigan, 2011) andFragmenting Globalization(Michigan, 2021). She is also the editor or co-editor ofChina’s Foreign Trade Poli

Jack Linzhou Xing is the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. His research examines the social implications and governance of the platform economy, digital infrastructure, and digital labor, with a regional focus on China. His current work explores the contested development and deployment of autonomous vehicles in China.

Zhehang Zhang (coordinator) is a Ph.D. student at Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.

Xueguang Zhou is the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development, Professor of Sociology, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His research focuses on institutional change in contemporary Chinese society, especially Chinese organizations and management, social inequality, and state-society relations. His work has been especially influential in the study of Chinese bureaucracy, governance, and organizational processes.

Bolun Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University (ZJU). Before joining ZJU, he received his Bachelor’s degrees in Arabic and Sociology and his Master’s degree in Sociology from Peking University, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from UC San Diego. He is also a founding member of the Center for Critical Computational Social Science at ZJU.He is a researcher of infrastructure specializing in economic sociology and political sociology. His work explores the ma