Shiping Hua is the Calvin and Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. He is also Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University. He is the Vice President of SE Chapter of the Association of Asian Studies, the largest academic organization on Asian studies. Hua has published eight single-authored or edited books in English and three books in Chinese. He is currently working on a book manuscript on China’s legislative reforms. Hua is a guest professor at China’s Peking University, Renmin University, Jilin University, and Nankai University. He is the general editor of two book series, “Asia in the New Millennium” in English with the University Press of Kentucky and “Contemporary World’s Classics: Political Science Series” in Chinese with Renmin University Press. He sits on the editorial boards of three academic journals, Journal of Chinese Political Science, American Review of China Studies, and International Journal of China Studies.
Sujian Guo is a Distinguished Professor of Fudan University, the Associate Dean of Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University, and a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of Center for U.S.-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Political Science, Editor of Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington’s Chinese political studies series, and former President of the Association of Chinese Political Studies. He received his PhD from the University of Tennessee. His authored and edited books include China’s Environmental Crisis: Domestic and Global Political Responses and Impacts; Thirty Years of China-US Relations: Analytical Approaches and Contemporary Issues; Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions; Greater China in an Era of Globalization; China in Search of a Harmonious Society; Harmonious World and China's New Foreign Policy; Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development; New Dimensions of Chinese Foreign Policy; China in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities; The Political Economy of Asian Transition from Communism; China’s “Peaceful Rise” in the 21st Century: Domestic and International Conditions; and Post-Mao China: From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism.
