Xianda Huang earned his BA in Economics and Chinese Literature from Vanderbilt University in 2022 and his MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University in 2024. He served as an elected student representative for the Yale East Asian Studies Council in 2023-2024, and was a recipient of the 2024–2025 Fox International Fellowship, through which he conducted academic exchanges at the Australian National University. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of modern China, with an emphasis on popular culture, media studies, and cultural economics. His work has been published in the Journal of East Asian Studies, The Conversation (US), ANU Reporter, and Chinese News of Traditional Chinese Medicine, among other Chinese and English periodicals.

Xu Zhang holds an MA in African Studies from Yale University and a BA in International Relations from Peking University. He was a recipient of the 2024–2025 Fox International Fellowship and has engaged in academic exchange at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests include informal mining, environmentalism, and redistribution politics in Southern Africa, with fieldwork in both South Africa and Zambia.

Yifan Chen holds an MA and a BA in Business Administration from Waseda University, where she also served as an ambassador for Chinese-Japanese cultural exchanges. She was a recipient of the 2024–2025 Fox International Fellowship. Her research focuses on international business and organizational theory, with a particular emphasis on multinational corporations' foreign direct investment and online transaction security.

Xingyu Gao is a PhD candidate in History at Peking University and holds a BA in History from Nanjing University. His research focuses on US foreign policy from World War I to the early Cold War, particularly the development of diplomatic information and propaganda agencies, and the role of social scientists in these efforts. He has contributed to oral history projects, including interviews with survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, and led a research project that received a National Special Prize in the “Challenge Cup” Academic Competition. In 2023–2024, he was funded by the China Scholarship Council for a visiting research opportunity in history at Yale.

Hao Zhang is a PhD candidate in History at Peking University and conducted research at Yale Divinity School with funding from the China Scholarship Council in 2023-2024. His research focuses on the interaction between American religion and foreign relations in the early Cold War.