Aaron William Moore is the Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of two books: Writing War (2013), which analysed over 200 combat soldiers' diaries from China, Japan, and the United States, and Bombing the City (2018), which compared the air raid experiences of civilians in British and Japanese regional cities. In addition to the history of early East Asian science fiction, he is currently working on a book about the global experiences of wartime youth. In 2014 he was awarded the Leverhulme Prize for his work on transnational and comparative history.

Jennifer Altehenger is associate professor of Chinese History and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History at the University of Oxford and Merton College. Her research focuses on the history of modern China, especially the history of industrial design, materiality, and everyday life. She is the author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989 (2018) and together with Denise Y. Ho of Material Contradictions in Mao's China (2022). She is also the editor of the online resource "The Mao Era in Objects" and is currently working on a book titled Designing Socialism: Furniture and Mass Production in China.