Karen Turner is professor and department chair of history at Holy Cross College. James V. Feinerman is James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies at Georgetown University. R. Kent Guy is professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington. Other contributors are William P. Alford, Alison W. Conner, Jack L. Dull, Tahirih V. Lee, Jonathan K. Ocko, Pitman B. Potter, Claudia Ross, Lester Ross, Yuanyuan Shen, Joanna Waley-Cohen, and Margaret Y. K. Woo.
R. Kent Guy is professor of history emeritus at the University of Washington. He is the author of Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796 (University of Washington Press, 2010) and The Emperor's Four Treasures: Scholars and the State in the Late Qianlong Period (Harvard Asia Center, 1987); and coeditor of Limits of the Rule of Law in China (University of Washington Press, 1999).