Cao Yin, Ph.D. in History from the National University of Singapore, Senior Humboldt Fellow in Germany, and currently an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of History at Peking University. His research focuses on Global History, South and Southeast Asian studies, and Modern Indian History. His current work primarily explores the movement of people and technology, infrastructure, multi-species ecological chains, colonialism, and nation-building in the tropical regions of the world during the 19th and 20th centuries. He has published the monograph Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-1945 ( Oxford University Press, 2022), Port, sew, bicycle : how modern infrastructures and everyday technologies encountered in Asia, From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945 (Brill, 2018), among others. His articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Journal of World History, and Modern Asian Studies.

Director, Beijing Farmers’ Market; Founding editor, Foodthink.

Since 2010, Chang Tianle is the organizer of Beijing Farmers’ Market, a platform to support small organic producers and sustainable food systems through weekly pop-up markets, community centers, education programs, farm visits, research and advocacy. In 2016, she co-founded Heyi Green Foundation and served as vice chair. She is also the founding editor for Foodthink, an online media platform to promote sustainable food system. In 2009, she joined a Minneapolis-based NGO Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy as its China program officer. Before that, she worked as a journalist for China Development Brief and China Daily. She studied journalism at Shanghai International Studies University and International Affairs at the New School in New York.

Fang Shujun founded STUDIOFSJ in 2019. With works fueled by extensive academic research and spatial innovation, the studio seeks to capture its unique specificity and uncover the maximum spatial potential through the most personal expression.

Recent works by STUDIOFSJ include various dwellings and constructions embedded in different texture of big city Beijing: Mountain Dwelling, W5 House, Village Park. And a wide range of on-going projects including Viewing Platforms in Tibet, Community Centre in Zhejiang and a number of micro-infrastructure interventions in Beijing suburbs feature studio’s continues engagement with interdisciplinary approaches.

Many honors have been awarded to FANG Shujun and her studio, including Wallpaper Design Awards, AD 100 YOUNG Awards and Rural Futures Award.

Born in Zhejiang, Fang Shujun is Swiss Federal Registered Architect with Master of Architecture from ETH Zürich and Bachelor of Architecture from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Lili Lai teaches at the School of Health Humanities of Peking University. Her research interests focus on body, everyday life, and medical practices. Lai’s monographs include Hygiene, Sociality and Culture in Contemporary Rural China: The Uncanny New Village (Amsterdam University Press, 2016) and Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China's Mountain South, co-authored with Judith Farquhar (The University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Dr. Yang Beichen is a researcher and a curator based in Beijing, currently serving as the director of the Macalline Center of Art (MACA), and an associate professor at the Central Academy of Drama. Prior to that, he was a senior editor of Artforum.com.cn (2012-2017) , a guest researcher at the New Century Art Foundation (NCAF, 2019-2021) and one of the members of the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada（2021-2023）.