Shun-hing Chan
is professor of religion and philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research focuses on the sociology of religion and church-state relations. He is co-author of Changing Church and State Relations in Hong Kong, 1950–2000 (Hong Kong University Press, 2003) and editor of A Carnival of Gods: Studies of Religions in Hong Kong (Oxford University Press, 2002). He has published papers in the China Quarterly, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, International Sociology, and the Journal of Church and State.
Fredrik Fällman
is associate professor of Sinology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Fällman has published papers on intellectuals and faith in contemporary China, religious and ethnic policies in the People’s Republic of China, propaganda language, and Sino-Western cultural exchange.
Zhidong Hao
Professor Emeritus of sociology, University of Macau, has researched and published papers on political sociology, historical sociology, and the sociology of religion (especially the role of religion in social and political development), higher education, and intellectuals. His most recent books include Academic Freedom under Siege: Higher Education in East Asia, the U.S., and Australia (ed., Springer Nature, 2020), Macau History and Society (2nd edition, Hong Kong University Press, 2020), and a Chinese translation of his 2003 book Intellectuals at a Crossroads: The Changing Politics of China’s Knowledge Workers (Zhizhi Academic Press, 2019).
Jonathan W. Johnson
is a lecturer in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research centers around questions of aesthetic philosophy, as applied to intercultural practices and negative value judgments. He also lectures on inter-religious dialogue in universities and seminaries as an ordained minister. Recent publications include a translation of Chinese aesthetic writings in Robert Clewis’ The Sublime Reader (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and an article of “Understandings of Ugliness in Kant’s Aesthetics” in Lars Aagaard-Mogensen and Jane Forsey’s edited volume On the Ugly: Aesthetic Exchanges (Cambridge Scholars, 2019).
is associate professor of sociology at National Taipei University. He teaches about the sociology of religion, religion and politics, and social network analysis. His research mainly focuses on Taiwanese religions in general and Taiwanese Christianity in particular. He recently worked on a general research project focusing on the Catholic Church throughout Taiwan, funded by the Yu-pin Foundation at Fu-jen Catholic University.
Richard Madsen
is a Distinguished Research Professor and director of the UC-Fudan Center for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He has written or cowritten eight books on China, and the most recent is The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life, co-edited with Becky Yang Hsu (University of California Press, 2019).
Lida V. Nedilsky
professor of sociology at North Park University, is author of Converts to Civil Society: Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong (Baylor University Press, 2014). Her Hong Kong research focuses on the intersection of religious and political cultures. Most recently, she guest edited, with historian Joseph Tse-hei Lee of Pace University, a special issue of China Information (July 2019) and contributed the article “Marginalization as Creative Endeavour,” discussing the innovative possibilities that come with existing on society’s margins.
Lauren F. Pfister
is Professor Emeritus of Hong Kong Baptist University and the rector of Hephzibah Mountain Aster Academy in 2021. His major works are Striving for “The Whole Duty of Man”: James Legge and the Scottish Protestant Encounter with China (Peter Lang, 2004) and a tome in Chinese on studies of translation hermeneutics (Xiamen University Press, 2016). His forthcoming books include Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues (Lexington Press, 2020) and Polyglot from the Far Side of the Moon: The Life and Works of Solomon Caesar Malan (1812–1894) (Monumenta Serica, 2021).
Yik-fai Tam
is a retired lecturer from Hong Kong Baptist University. His major contributions include “Xianghua foshi (Incense and Flower Buddhist Rites): Local Buddhist Funeral Tradition in Southeastern China,” in Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China, edited by Paul Williams and Patrice
Gerda Wielander
is professor of Chinese studies and associate head of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Westminster, London. She is the author of Christian Values in Communist China (Routledge, 2013), as well as several book chapters and articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. Her most recent work includes Chinese Discourses on Happiness (Hong Kong University Press, 2018).
Teresa Wright
chairs the Political Science Department at California State University, Long Beach. Her research focuses on state-society relations, protest and dissent, and the relationship between capitalism and democracy—particularly in China and Taiwan. Wright’s newest books are Popular Protest in China (Polity Press, 2018) and her edited volume Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China (Edward Elgar, 2019). She also serves on the editorial board of the China Quarterly.
Mary Mee-Yin Yuen
is a professor of social ethics at the Holy Spirit Seminary College of Theology and Philosophy, Hong Kong. She has published papers on social ethics, Catholic social teachings, feminist theology, and the Christian Church and society.