Liping Bu, PhD., is Reid-Knox Professor at Alma College in the United States. She has published broadly on public health, including Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia (2012), Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia: International Influences, Local Transformations (2015), Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015 (2017), and Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia (2024).

Xiaoping Fang is an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Monash University, Australia. His research interests focus on the history of medicine, health, and epidemics in twentieth-century China and the socio-political history of Mao’s China after 1949. He has published articles in journals such as Modern China, The China Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, and Medical History. He is the author of Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012) and China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021; Winner, 2022 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Awards).