CONTRIBUTORS

WANG JISI is one of China’s most influential scholars of international relations. After working as a laborer in the countryside in the 1960s and 1970s, Wang studied at Peking University. He went on to teach in the school’s Department of International Politics and is now president of its Institute of International and Strategic Studies. A former member of the advisory board of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in “The Plot Against China?” (page 48), Wang considers how a tougher U.S. line on China looks from Beijing.

ORVILLE SCHELL has been studying China since he was an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1950s. In the decades that followed, he served as The Boston Globe’s “man in Asia,” wrote for The New Yorker and other magazines, produced television programs, and headed the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of 15 books, Schell now directs the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. In “Life of the Party” (page 68), he examines the long and surprisingly diverse history of the Chinese Communist Party.

A leading chronicler of Myanmar, THANT MYINT-U has written four books on the country, including the acclaimed Hidden History of Burma. He has also worked for the UN in various capacities, serving on three peacekeeping operations and as chief of policy planning in the organization’s political department. Thant Myint-U is chair of U Thant House, a leading education and discussion center in Yangon named after his grandfather, and from 2011 to 2016, he served as an adviser to the president of Myanmar. In “Myanmar’s Coming Revolution” (page 132), he argues that despite the recent turmoil, the country can still break free of its past.

ADOM GETACHEW, a political theorist at the University of Chicago, was born in Ethiopia, grew up in Botswana in a community of fellow African expatriates, and moved to the United States a month before 9/11. Her early experiences with both pan-Africanism and the resurgence of American power shaped her scholarly pursuits, including her book Worldmaking After Empire, an intellectual history of decolonization. In “Anti-imperial Subjects” (page 180), she reviews Tim Harper’s Underground Asia, which delves into the Asian radicals who resisted European imperialism.