Denise Y. Ho is associate professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University. She is an historian of modern China, with a particular focus on 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.

Jennifer Altehenger is associate professor of Chinese History and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History at the University of Oxford and Merton College. Her research focuses on the history of the People’s Republic of China. She is the author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1989 (2018). With Denise Y. Ho, she co-edited Material Contradictions in Mao's China (2022) and she is also editor of the online resource "The Mao Era in Objects." Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust, she is currently working on a book entitled The Matter of Design: Furnishing Socialist China.

Ching-Ching Ni is editor-in-chief of the New York Times Chinese-language website and Shi lifestyle magazine. She began her career in China as Shanghai bureau chief and Beijing correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She branched briefly into academia, serving as associate dean and professor at the journalism school at Shantou University.