Brian Lander is associate professor of history and environment and society at Brown University. He is the author of The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire (2021) and other works.

Peter B. Lavelle is associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China (2020) and other works.