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.

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

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.

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

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.