Dr. Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Queer Comrades, Queer China, Queer Media in China and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance, and co-editor of Contemporary Queer Chinese Art. He serves on the editorial boards of British Journal of Chinese Studies, Chinese Independent Cinema Observer, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Political Cinemas book series (Edinburgh University Press) and Queer Asia book series (Hong Kong University Press). He also co-edits Oyster: Feminist and Queer Approaches to Arts, Cultures and Genders (de Gruyter) and Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities (Bloomsbury).

Diyi Mergenthaler is a Ph.D candidate at the Institute of Art history at the University of Zurich. She obtained her MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies with distinction at the University of Leeds in 2017. Her current research project investigates queer artworks created by artists, activists, curators and critics in mainland China and the Chinese diaspora in Europe from the 1980s to the present. In May 2021, she organised the Zoom workshop, titled "Queering the Boundaries of the Arts in the Sinosphere," to amplify the voices of Chinese queer and feminist artists with her colleagues. She coedits the publication Contemporary Queer Chinese Art.

Award-winning critical theorist and cultural historian Paul Gladston is the Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney and a distinguished affiliate fellow of the UK-China Humanities Alliance, Tsinghua University. He is co-editor of the book series Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics and was founding principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. His recent publications include the collected edition Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China (2021) and the monograph Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity (2019). He was an academic adviser to Art of Change: New Directions from China, Hayward Gallery, London (2012).