Xiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Xiaobo received Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.

Jessica C. Teets is a Professor at Middlebury College. She is the author of Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and editor (with William Hurst) of Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (Routledge Contemporary China Series, 2014). She received her B.A from University of Maryland and PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Yuhua Wang is the Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Tying the Autocrat’s Hands: The Rise of the Rule of Law in China (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (Princeton University Press, 2022). Yuhua received his B.A. from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.