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The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Parsifal D’Sola Alvarado is Founder and Executive Director of the Andrés ...

Emma Belmonte is a freelance journalist and a China Research Fellow for the Association for International Affairs (AMO). After gaining expertise in Chinese-speaking regions at the University of ...

Tina Kanagaratnam is a co-founder of Historic Shanghai, established in 1998 with the goal of raising awareness of Shanghai’s unique history through research, city walks, and events. She is the author ...

Pascale Massot is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is also a non-resident Honorary Fellow for Political Economy at the Asia Society Policy ...

Kenneth Roth is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Until August 2022, he served for nearly three decades as the Executive ...

Shelly Kraicer is a writer and curator based in Toronto, Canada. Educated at Yale University, he lived for 12 year in Beijing. He has written film criticism in Cinema Scope, Positions, Cineaste, The ...

Thomas Kellogg is Executive Director of Georgetown Center for Asian Law. Prior to this position, he was Director of the East Asia Program at the Open Society Foundations. He was also a lecturer in ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a political scientist, China scholar ...