<h4><span style="color: #000000;">Brendan O'Kane is a host at Popup Chinese, a translator at Paper Republic, a contributing editor to <i>Pathlight</i> magazine, and (more recently) an MA student at the University of Pennsylvania.  Follow him on twitter at @bokane </span></h4>

Brendan O'Kane

<h4>Born in London and educated there and in Glasgow, Paul French has lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China and has written a number of books, including a history of foreign correspondents in China and a biography of the legendary Shanghai adman, journalist and adventurer Carl Crow.  His book <i>Midnight in Peking</i> won the 2013 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, was a <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and will be made into an international miniseries by Kudos Film and Television. Twitter: @chinarhyming</h4>

Paul French

<h4>Charles W. Hayford is an Independent Scholar who has recently stepped down from editing <em>Journal of American-East Asian Relations</em>. He started to take Pearl Buck seriously when writing his book, <em>To the People: James Yen and Village China</em> (Columbia University Press, 1990), which told the story of liberal reform alternatives to Mao's rural revolution.</h4>

Charles W. Hayford

<h4>Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history at Birkbeck College, University of London.  An active translator of modern Chinese literature, she is the author of several books, including, most recently, <i>The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams And The Making Of China.  </i>She is currently researching the global history of Maoism and working on a new translation of <i>Journey to the West.</i></h4>

Julia Lovell

China and the Nobel Prize: Four Essays on Classic Chinese Authors

Fortress Besieged

A Monument to What Might Have Been: Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

<span style="color: #000000;">Brendan O'Kane is a host at Popup Chinese, a translator at Paper Republic, a contributing editor to <i>Pathlight</i> magazine, and (more recently) an MA student at the University of Pennsylvania.  Follow him on twitter at @bokane </span>