Ashley Esarey is associate professor of political science at the University of Alberta. He is coauthor, with Hsiu-lien Lu, of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power and coeditor of Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State. Rongbin Han is associate professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia. He is author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience and coauthor of Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online.
Mary Alice Haddad is professor of government, East Asian studies, and environmental studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007); and coeditor of NIMBY Is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World (Berghahn Books, 2015).
Joanna Lewis is associate professor of science, technology, and international affairs at Georgetown University and faculty affiliate in the China Energy Group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is the author of Green Innovation in China: China’s Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy (Columbia University Press, 2013).
Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. His many books include Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China.