Denise Ho is associate professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University. She is an historian of modern China, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history. She is the author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China (2018) and co-editor of Material Contradictions in Mao’s China (2022). She is currently completing her second book, entitled Cross-Border Relations: A Grassroots History of Hong Kong and China.

Peter E. Hamilton is the author of Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Columbia University Press, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, 2021). Its Chinese edition was published in early 2024 by Monsoon Zone Publishing. He graduated from Yale in 2007 and taught with the Yale-China Association in Hong Kong from 2007 to 2009. His second book is investigating the history of scientific management across China’s twentieth century and will be published by Columbia University Press.

Taomo Zhou is an Associate Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her first book, Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2019),won a Foreign Affairs “Best Books of 2020” award and an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. Taomo is currently working on her second book project tentatively entitled Made in Shenzhen: A Global History of China’s First Special Economic Zone, which is under advance contract with Stanford University Press.