Andrew B. Liu is associate professor of history at Villanova University. He is the author of Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (2020).

Owen Miller is assistant professor of history at Bilkent University. He is the author of The Conquest of the Mountains: State Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East (2025).

Meha Priyadarshini is senior lecturer in history at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico: The Material Worlds of an Early Modern Trade (2018).