Academic Freedom
Chinese Academics Detained:

Original Petition Signatories


Signed (by email):

Regina M. Abrami
Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University, USA

William P. Alford
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA

Ann Anagnost
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, USA

Anita M. Andrew
Associate Professor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University, USA

Erik Baark
Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

David Bachman
Professor and Chair, China Studies Program, University of Washington, USA

Vivek Bhandari
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, Hampshire College, USA

Geremie R. Barme
Professor and Convenor, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Australia

Amrita Basu
Professor of Political Science, Amherst College, USA

Richard Baum
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles;
Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, USA

Charlotte L. Beahan
Professor of History, Murray State University, USA

Bei Ling
Research Associate, Fairbank Center For East Asian Research, Harvard University, USA

Jean-Philippe Beja
Senior Researcher at National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) - Centre for International Research (CERI), Paris, France

Robert Benewick
Research Professor, Politics Department, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Gregor Benton,
Professorial Fellow, School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, UK

Thomas P. Bernstein
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, USA

Lucien Bianco
Professor of History, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

Robert Bickers
Senior Lecturer in History, Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, UK

Joseph Bosco
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Michel Bonnin
Senior Lecturer, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

Jerome Bourgon
Researcher, Institut d'Asie Orientale de Lyon, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

Anne-Marie Brady
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden

Susanne Brandtstaedter
Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

Ole Bruun
Senior Research Fellow, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark

David D. Buck
Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

John Burns
Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Director, Centre d'Etudes Français sur la Chine Contemporaine (CEFC), Hong Kong, China

Cao Liqun
Associate Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, USA

Peter Carroll
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University, USA

Maya Chadda
Professor of Political Science and faculty of Asian Studies, William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA

H. B. Chamberlain
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of British Columbia, Canada

Anita Chan
Senior Research Fellow, Australian Research Council, Australia

Gene Hsin Chang, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Toledo, USA

Kimberly Chang
Associate Professor of Social Psychology, School of Social Science, Hampshire College, USA

Jui-shan Chang
Senior lecturer, Sociology Program, University of Melbourne, Australia

Shirley Chang
Assistant Professor of Chinese, The State University of New York, Albany, USA

Timothy Cheek
Associate Professor of History, Colorado College, USA

Anna Gustafsson Chen
Translator, Librarian at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden

Chen Chao
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and International Business, New York University, USA

Chen Feng
Associate Professor of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Chen Jianhua
Instructor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University, USA

Kevin Chen
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA

Chen Maiping
Editor for Jintian, Stockholm, Sweden

Peter Chen
Instructor of Chinese, Harvard University, USA

Chen Weixing
Associate Professor of International Relations, East Tennessee State University, USA

Chen Xiaoping
Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, USA

Chen Zeng-yin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, USA

Joseph Y.S. Cheng
Professor, Raymond Lo Contemporary China Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Cheng Xiaonong
Editor, Modern China Studies, USA

John Child
Chair of Commerce, University of Birmingham, UK

C.L. Chiou
Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Queensland, Australia

Hung-dah Chiu
Professor of International Law, University of Maryland, USA

Chou Yang-sun
Professor of Political Science, Chinese Cultural University, Taiwan

John Clammer
Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo

Alvin Cohen
Professor of Chinese, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

Jerome A. Cohen
Professor, New York University (NYU) Law School, USA

Myron L. Cohen
Professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the East Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA

Paul Cohen
Member, Executive committee of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, USA

Donald C. Clarke
Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, USA

James H. Cole
Independent scholar and member of Modern China Seminar, Columbia University, USA

Alison W. Conner
Professor of Law, University of Hawaii, USA

Gene Cooper
Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California, USA

George T. Crane
Chair, Asian Studies Department, Williams College, Williamstown, USA

Maghiel van Crevel
Professor and Chair, Department of Chinese Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Susan Darlington
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, Hampshire College, USA

Delia Davin
Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK

Deborah Davis
Professor of Sociology, Yale University, USA

Michael Davis
Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Sara Davis
Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, USA

Hugo de Burgh
Senior Lecturer, Media and Communications, University of London Goldsmiths' College, UK

Bruce Dickson
Department of Political Science, Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, USA

Michael Dillon
Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Durham, UK

X.L. Ding
Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China

Zheng Ding
Professor of Physics, Normandale Community College, USA

Lowell Dittmer
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michael William Dowdle
Visiting Professor of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

June Teufel Dreyer
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Miami, USA

Ryan Dunch
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Helen Dunstan
Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney, Australia

Elizabeth Economy
Senior Fellow for China at the Council on Foreign Relations, USA

Richard Louis Edmonds
Senior Lecturer in Geography with Reference to China, SOAS, University of London, UK

Louise Edwards
Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies, Australian Catholic University, Everton Park, USA

Karen Eggleston
Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Tufts University, USA

Bruce A. Elleman
Associate Professor, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War College, USA

Mark C. Elliott
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Kathleen Erwin
Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Joseph W. Esherick
Professor of History and Hsiu Professor of Chinese Studies, University of California, San Diego, USA

Harriet Evans
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK

Jacob Eyferth
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK

Mary Farquhar
Associate Professor, Asian & International Studies, Griffith University, Australia

David Faure
University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, University of Oxford, UK

Lee Feigon
Professor, East Asian Studies, Colby College, USA

James V. Feinerman
Associate Dean, International and Graduate Programs, Georgetown University Law Center, USA

Feng Chongyi
Institute for International Studies, University of Technology of Sydney, Australia

Stephan Feuchtwang
Professor, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, UK

Joseph Fewsmith
Professor of Political Science, Boston University, USA

John Fitzgerald
Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Michael J. Fonte
Senior Policy Analyst, Formosan Association for Public Affairs, USA

Rosemary Foot
Professor, International Relations, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK

Ann Frechette
Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies, Hamilton College, USA

Edward Friedman
Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Sara Friedman
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, USA

B. Michael Frolic
Director, University of Toronto-York University, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, Toronto, Canada

Edmund Fung
Professor of Asian Studies, School of Cultural Inquiry, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Mobo Gao
Senior Lecturer, Politics, University of Tasmania, Australia

C. Pat Giersch
Assistant Professor, History Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley Ma, USA

Thomas B. Gold
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Merle Goldman
Professor of Chinese History, Boston University, USA

Steven M. Goldstein
Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Smith College, Northampton, USA

David S. G. Goodman
Professor and Director, Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Peter Hays Gries
Research Fellow, Mershon Center for Security Studies, The Ohio State University, USA

Jonas Grimheden
Researcher, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, Sweden

Julian M. Groves
Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

A. Tom Grunfeld
Prof. of History, State University of New York, Empire State College, USA

Zsuzsanna Gulacsi
Department of Comparative Culture, Art History Program, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

Mel Gurtov
Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Portland State University, Oregon, USA

Guo Jian
Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA

Guo Sujian
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University, USA

Doug Guthrie
Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University, USA

Nancy Guy
Assistant Professor of Music, University of California, San Diego, USA

Rosemary Haddon
Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, Massey University, New Zealand

Gary Hamilton
Professor, Department of Sociology and The Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA

Carol Lee Hamrin
Affiliate Professor, George Mason University, USA

Marta E. Hanson
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, San Diego, USA

Harry Harding
Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, The George Washington University, USA

Stevan Harrell
Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Asian Ethnology, Burke Museum, University of Washington, USA

Stuart Harris
Professor, Department of International Relations, Australian National University, Australia

Tom Hart
Professor, Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden

Kathleen Hartford
Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts/Boston, USA

He Baogang
Reader, School of Government, University of Tasmania, Australia

Nancy Hearst
Librarian, Harvard University, USA

Robert E. Hegel
Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

Christian Henriot
Directeur, Institut d'Asie Orientale, France

Ann Hill
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Departments of Anthropology and East Asian Studies, Dickinson College, USA

Jennifer Ho
Instructor, Asian-American Literature, Mount Holyoke College, USA

Lisa Hoffman
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China

Sharon K. Hom
Professor, City University of New York School of Law, USA

Zhaohui Hong
Professor of History at Savannah State University of Georgia, USA

Pat Howard
Associate Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

Roger Howard
University Research Associate, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada

C.T. Hsia
Professor Emeritus of Chinese, Columbia University, USA

Jean-François Huchet
Senior Research Fellow, Centre d'Etudes Français sur la Chine Contemporaine, Hong Kong, China

Sandra Hyde
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University, USA

Manying Ip
Senior Lecturer, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Tamara Jacka
Senior Lecturer, China and Korea Centre, The Australian National University, Australia

Ronald R. Janssen
Profesor of Modern Literature, Hofstra University, USA

Colin Jeffcott
Lecturer in Chinese History, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Australian National University, Australia

Harlan W. Jencks
Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Weidong Ji
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, Japan

Jin Dengjian
Assistant Professor for International Studies, Dickinson College, USA

Zhichun Jing
Honorary Fellow of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Ellis Joffe
Professor of Chinese Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Kay Johnson
Professor of Asian Studies and Politics, Hampshire College, USA

Alastair Iain Johnston
The Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government Department, Harvard University, USA

William A. Joseph
Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations & Political Science; Co-Director, Chinese Studies; Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, USA

Carol Jones
Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Richard C. Kagan
Professor of History, Hamline University, St. Paul, USA

Harold L. Kahn
Professor (Emeritus), History, Stanford University, USA

Joyce K Kallgren
Professor Emeritus and Academic Editor Asian Survey, University of California Berkeley, USA

Kang Hongjin
Library Assistant for East Asia, Dickinson College, USA

Kang Zhengguo
Senior Lector of Chinese, Yale University, USA

Peter J. Katzenstein
Walter S. Carpenter Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, USA

Michael Keane
Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Pauline Keating,
Senior Lecturer, History Department, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Daniel Kelliher
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, USA

Catherine H. Keyser
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Drew University, USA

Lili M. Kim
Five College Fellow, School of Social Science, Hampshire College, USA

Samuel S. Kim
Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA

Andrew Kipnis
Research Fellow, Contemporary China Centre, The Australian National University, Australia

William Kirby
Professor of History and Director, Asia Center, Harvard University, USA

Andy Kirkpatrick
Professor of Language Education, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Nick Knight
Professor, Asian and International Studies, Griffith University, Australia

Paul Knight
Postgraduate Studies Convenor, East Asian Studies Programme, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Hagen Koo
Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii, USA

Judith F. Kornberg
Director, Continuing Education Purchase College, SUNY, USA

Michal Korzec
Associate Professor, East Asia Research Center, Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Agnes Ku
Assistant Prof. Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Philip A. Kuhn
Professor of History, Harvard University, USA

Robert André LaFleur
Associate Professor of History, Beloit College, USA

Andre Laliberte
Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada

David M. Lampton
Hyman Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, USA

John D. Langlois
Lecturer, East Asian Studies, Princeton University, USA

Ching Kwan Lee
Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Eliza W.Y. Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Mabel Lee
Associate Professor, Chinese Studies, University of Sydney, Australia

Steven A. Leibo
Professor of History, The Sage Colleges & State University of New York, Albany, USA

Richard Levy
Chair, Department of Political Science, Salem State College, Salem MA, USA

Li Dong
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Studies Programme, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Li Haipeng
Reference Librarian, Oberlin College, USA

Lianjiang Li
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Linnei Li
Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Deakin University, Australia

Lin Jiann-I
East Asian Specialist-Librarian, Oberlin, College, USA

Perry Link
Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, USA

Jonathan Lipman
Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College, USA

Liu Jian
Reference Librarian, Indiana University, USA

Liu Jianmei
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Maryland, USA

Peter Liu
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Monmouth University, USA

Stanley Lubman
Lecturer, Stanford Law School, USA

Laura M. Luehrmann
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Wright State University, USA

Tai-lok Lui
Associate Professor, Sociology Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Bernard Luk
Associate Professor of History, York University, Canada

Daniel C. Lynch
Assistant Professor, School of International Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Roderick MacFarquhar
Leroy B. Williams Professor of History & Political Science; Chair, Government Department, Harvard University, USA

Richard Madsen
Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, USA

Victor H. Mair
Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA

John Makeham
Reader, Chinese Studies, Adelaide University, Australia

Melanie Manion
Associate Professor, Political Science and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Susan Mann
Professor, History, and Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Davis, USA

Maurizio Marinelli
Visiting Scholar of Literature, Brown University, USA

Robert B. Marks
Professor of History, Whittier College, California, USA

Roberta Martin
Research Associate, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA

Kathleen Masalski
Program Coordinator and Associate Director, Five College Center for East Asian Studies, Smith College, USA

Barrett L. McCormick
Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Political Science Department, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA

Donald H. McMillen
Professor of Asian and International Studies, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Tobie Meyer-Fong
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA

H. Lyman Miller
Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, and Visiting
Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA

Lucien Millier
Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

Richard Minear
Professor of History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

Kay Möller
Senior Research Associate, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany

Michelle Mood
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Kenyon College, USA

Stephen L. Morgan,
Lecturer in Asian Economic History, Department of Management, University of Melbourne, Australia

Christoph Müller-Hofstede
Senior Fellow, Ost-West-Kolleg /East-West-Institute, Germany

Robin Munro
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

Ramon H. Myers
Curator-Scholar, East Asian Collection and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA

Charles Nanry
Professor, Rutgers University, USA

Andrew J. Nathan
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, USA

Barry Naughton
Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, USA

Victor Nee
Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology and Chair, Cornell University, USA

Ka Po Ng
Assistant Professor, Division of International Cultural Studies, Aichi Bunkyo University, Japan

Kevin J. O'Brien
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jonathan Ocko
Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University, USA

Jean C. Oi
Professor of Political Science, Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, USA

Jane Orton
Senior Lecturer, Department of Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia

James B. Palais
Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA

Jeremy T. Paltiel
Associate Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Albert Park
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, USA

Sam Park
Associate Professor of Business, Rutgers University, USA

Kristen Parris
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Washington University, USA

David Pattinson
Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK

Randy Peerenboom
Acting Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law, USA

Benjamin Penny
Harold White Research Fellow, National Library of Australia, Australia

Elizabeth J. Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, USA

Paul G. Pickowicz
Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, USA

Frank Pieke
Lecturer, Anthropology and Human Geography of Modern China, University of Oxford, UK

Judy Polumbaum,
Associate Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication, The University of Iowa, USA

Pitman B. Potter
Professor of Law, Director, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada

Jonathan D. Pollack
Chairman, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War College, USA

Kenneth Pomeranz
Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of California, Irvine, USA

Ngai Pun
Research Fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Louis Putterman
Professor of Economics, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA

Lisa Raphals
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign
Languages, University of California, Riverside, USA

John A. Rapp
Professor, Department of Political Science, Beloit College, USA

Elizabeth J. Remick
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Tufts University, USA

Shelley Rigger
Brown Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Davidson College, USA

Carl Riskin
Professor of Economics, Queens College, USA

Mary Roberts
Lecturer, Linguistics/Communications Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Stanley Rosen
Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California, USA

Scott Rozelle
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, USA

Joshua Roth
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, USA

William T. Rowe
Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Scott Rozelle
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of California, Davis, USA

Gilbert Rozman
Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, USA

Teemu Ruskola
Assistant Professor of Law, American University, USA

Anthony Saich
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA

Eberhard Sandschneider
Dean, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Professor of Chinese Politics and International Relations, Free University of Berlin, Germany

P. Steven Sangren
Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University, USA

Sally Sargeson
Acting Director, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia

Phillip Saunders
Adjunct Professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA

Nora Sausmikat
Research Assistant, Political Sciences/ East Asian Studies, Universitat Duisburg, Germany

Eric Sautede
Researcher, Centre d'Etudes Francais sur la Chine Contemporaine, Hong Kong, China

Scott Savitt
Senior Editor, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Mitziko Sawada
Professor Emerita of History, Hampshire College, USA

Michael Sawer
Associate Professor of Modern Languages, School of Languages and International Education, University of Canberra, Australia

David C. Schak
Senior Lecturer, Asian & International Studies, Griffith University, Australia

Orville Schell
Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Harold Z. Schiffrin
Professor (Emeritus), Chinese Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Ian Scott
Professor of Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University, Australia

Mark Selden
Professor of Sociology and History, Binghamton University, USA

James D. Seymour
Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University, USA

David Shambaugh
Professor and Director of the China Policy Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA

Hugh Shapiro
Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, USA

Hari Sharma
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Yaohui Shi
Assistant Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

Mark Sidel
Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law and Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, USA

Patricia Sieber
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, USA

Jerome Silbergeld
Professor of Art History, University of Washington, USA

Amy Situ
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA

G. William Skinner
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA

Alvin Y. So
Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Dorothy J. Solinger
Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA

Lina Song
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Contemporary China Studies, University of Nottingham, UK

Song Yongyi
Senior Librarian & Researcher, Dickinson College, USA

Jonathan Spence
Sterling Professor of History, Yale University, USA

Charles Stafford, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, UK

Norman Stockman
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK

David Strand
Professor of Political Science, Dickinson College, USA

Janet Sturgeon
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden

Sun Dajin
Librarian, Yale University, USA

Warren Sun,
Visiting Fellow, Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University, and Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies Department, Monash University, Australia

Richard P. Suttmeier
Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, USA

Marina Svensson
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages, Lund University, Sweden

Michael D. Swaine
Research Director, Center for Asia-Pacific Policy (CAPP); Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, USA

James T. H. Tang
Associate Professor and Head, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Wenfang Tang
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Harold M. Tanner
Associate Professor of Chinese and Japanese History, University of North Texas, USA

Murray Scot Tanner
Associate Professor of Political Science, Western Michigan University, USA

Frederick C. Teiwes
Professor in Chinese Politics (Personal Chair), The University of Sydney, Australia

Barend J. ter Haar
Professor, Sinological Institute, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.
Professor of Politics, Brandeis University, USA

Janet M. Theiss
Assistant Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

Roger Thompson
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University, USA

Patricia Thornton
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, USA

Eric Thun
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA

Mette Thunoe
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Anne F. Thurston
Associate Professor, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

James Tong
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, and Director, UCLA Center for East Asian Studies, USA

Kellee Tsai
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Steve Tsang
Reader in Politics and Director of the Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University, UK

Jonathan Unger
Head, Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University, Australia

Hans van de Ven
Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Cambridge University, UK

Peter Van Ness
Visiting Fellow, Contemporary China Centre, RSPAS, Australian National University, Australia

Lyman P. Van Slyke
Professor (Emeritus), History, Stanford University, USA

Paula Varsano
Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Smith College, USA

Eduard B. Vermeer
Associate professor of modern Chinese history, Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Stephen Vlastos
Professor of History, Director, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
University of Iowa, USA

Judy von Loewe
Graduate Program Coordinator, Rutgers University, USA

Gudrun Wacker
Head of Research Unit Asia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany

Bonnie J. Wagner-Westbrook
Director of Special Programs, Rutgers University, USA

Carolyn Wakeman
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jan W. Walls
Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, Simon Fraser University, Canada

David D. W. Wang
Professor of Chinese, Columbia University, USA

Wang Hong-zen
Assistant Professor, Centre for Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Malcolm Warner
Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, USA

Wang Wei
Lector of Chinese, University of California at San Diego, USA

Andrew Wedeman
Director, Asian Studies Program, University of Nebraska, USA

George Wei
Assistant Professor of History, Susquehana University, USA

Wen Guanzhong
Associate Professor for Economics, Trinity College, USA

Byron S. J. Weng
Professor of Public Policy and Administration, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

Lynn T. White III
Professor, Politics Department, Woodrow Wilson School and the East Asian
Studies Program, Princeton University, USA

Allen S. Whiting
Regents Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Martin K. Whyte
Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, USA

Ian Wilson
Visiting Fellow, Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University, Australia

Scott Wilson
Associate Professor, Political Science Department, The University of the South, USA

Jane K. Winn
Professor, Southern Methodist University School of Law, Texas, USA

Margery Wolf
Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa, USA

Christine Wong
Jackson Professor of International Studies, University of Washington, USA

Laura Wong
East Asian Studies Librarian, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Garry Woodard
Adjunct Professor, Political Science, Melbourne University, Australia

Dennis Woodward
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Monash University, Australia

Guoguang Wu
Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Wu Jiaxiang
Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, USA

Xue Di
Visiting Scholar of Chinese Literature, Brown University, USA

Michael B. Yahuda
Professor and Convenor, International Relations Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Yang Rae
Associate Professor of Chinese, Dickinson College, USA

Yang Xiaobin
Croft Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Mississippi, USA

Xiaokai Yang
Associate Professor, Economics Department, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Robin D.S. Yates
Professor of History and East Asian Studies, McGill University, USA

Graham Young
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Science, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

David Yu
Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University, USA

Donald S. Zagoria
Professor of Government, Hunter College, USA

Peter Zarrow
Senior Lecturer, School of History, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Junhua Zhang
Assistant Professor, Free University Berlin, Department of Social Science, Centre for Chinese and East Asian Politics, Berlin, Germany

Zhang Lun
Senior Researcher, The French Advanced Academy of Social Sciences, France

Wei Zhang
Lecturer in Chinese Economics and Management, Cambridge University, UK

Zhao Quansheng
Professor and Division Director, Comparative and Regional Studies/SIS, American University, Washington DC, USA

Sam S. Zhao
Associate Professor of Political Science/International Studies
Washington College, USA

Zhong Yang
Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Tennessee, USA

Kate Xiao Zhou
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Hawaii, USA

Liana Hong Zhou
Head of Kinsey Institute Library, Indiana University, USA

Zehao Zhou
Assistant Professor of Information, York College, USA

Xueguang Zhou
Professor of Sociology, Duke University, USA

Lijing Zhu
Senior Fellow, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Zhu Yuchao
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Regina, Canada

David Zweig
Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China; and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada


(The signatories to this appeal represent only themselves. No endorsement by their affiliated academic institutions is implied.)



 


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