David Carter is Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Always Almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013) and Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies (2006), and editor of numerous books including Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing (2007). His new book, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace, will be appearing from Sydney University Press later in 2017. From 2002 until 2016 he directed the Australian Studies in China program for DFAT’s Australia-China Council, and in 2016-2017 he was Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Tokyo University. 

Gethin has worked in advertising and marketing for more than fifteen years. He began his career in direct marketing, working for the UK’s largest mail order company, before moving to agency land as an account manager. Since he moved to Sydney in 2004, he has worked across a wide range of industries, from healthcare to transport to the not-for-profit sector, and picked up a wide range of skills and awards.
 

Wai Chim is a first generation Chinese-American from New York City. She grew up speaking Cantonese at home and absorbing Western culture through books, TV and school. She spent some time living in Japan before making Sydney, Australia her permanent home. Her previous books include the Chook Chook series for middle-grade readers, and Shaozhen set in the drought stricken province of Henan in 2014. Wai also wrote Freedom Swimmer, a YA novel inspired by her father’s desperate swim to Hong Kong to escape Mao’s China in the 1970s.  In addition to writing, Wai works in digital marketing and website production and enjoys fine dining, pretending to do yoga and ogling puppies.

Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Asia in 2006, he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is also Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has published a dozen books that have changed the way we look at the history of China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China (1992) to China before Mao: The Age of Openness (2007). His People’s Trilogy has documented the impact of communism on the lives of ordinary people in China on the basis on new archival material, much of it never seen before. The first volume, Mao’s Great Famine, won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2011 and was translated into thirteen languages. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2014. The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 concludes the trilogy and was published in May 2016.

Jane hosts the ABC-TV interview show One Plus One.  She began her career in radio and television in Hong Kong. She has served as ABC Correspondent in China, the Middle-East and Europe.

Her first book From Rice to Riches, documented her family’s connections and her reporting experience in China. China Baby Love was published in May 2017.