Hu Ping is the New York-based editor of the Chinese-language monthly Beijing
Spring, and is a member of the board of directors of Human Rights in China.
Christine Loh, co-chair of the board of directors of Human Rights in China, is the
CEO of the non-profit think tank Civic Exchange, based in Hong Kong. Loh is a
lawyer by training, a commodities trader by profession, and was a member of the
Hong Kong Legislative Council; 1992–1997 and 1998–2000. She was responsible for
a number of historic legislative reforms, including giving the right to inherit land to
indigenous women in rural areas, and passing legislation to protect Victoria Harbor
from reclamation. Loh is well-known for her work in environmental protection and
climate change, and is an adviser to numerous international bodies. She was named
one of the Heroes of the Environment by Time magazine in 2007.
Andrew Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia
University. He is the co-editor of The Tiananmen Papers and How East Asians
View Democracy, and is co-chair of the board of directors of Human Rights in
China.
Wang Lixiong is an independent Chinese scholar, and is well-known for his
research on ethnic issues in China. In 2009 he was one of 100 signatories to a petition
that called on Chinese authorities to release Ilham Tohti, an ethnic Uyghur professor
of economics.
Xia Ming is a Professor of Political Science at the College of Staten Island and the
Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is the author of several books,
including The Dual Developmental State: Development Strategy and
Institutional Arrangements for China’s Transition and Toward a
Network Mode of Governance: The Provincial People’s Congresses in
China. He is also a co-producer of the HBO documentary, China’s Unnatural
Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009). He is currently working on a
book about organized crime and the criminal underworld in China.
Yan Li is a Chinese avant-garde poet, novelist, and painter. He was born in Beijing in
1954. In the late 1970s, he became associated with the Stars Group of artists and
writers, and the Misty Poets, both of whom are noted for their subversion of social
realism through reliance on emotion and personal imagery. In the mid-1980s, he
moved to New York, where he founded the magazine First Line (Yi Hang), which
collected the writings of many contemporary Chinese poets and translated American
poetry. His work has been translated into French, English, Italian, Swedish, Korean,
and German. Yan’s paintings have been displayed in the Fukuoka Art Museum in
Japan and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai.
Zan Aizong has been a reporter, editor, and columnist for a number of newspapers,
including China Ocean News and China Communication News. He was put in
criminal detention in 2006 on charges of “spreading rumors harmful to society” for
his reporting on the demolition of a Christian church in Zhejiang. He received the Lin
Chao Memorial Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Center in 2007. In 2008,
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