• Jieh-Min Wu is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and the co-founder of the Center for Contemporary China at National Tsing Hua University. With a focus on geopolitics,democratization, and development policy, he has published extensively on Taiwan-China relations, China's development, and Hong Kong under China’s rule. His most recent book, Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), received the 2023 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Publication (Book) by an International Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA). Additionally, he co-edited China’s Influence and the Center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Indo-Pacific (with Brian Fong and Andrew Nathan, Routledge, 2021), and The Political Sociology of the “China Factor”: The Penetration of Chinese Influence in Taiwan Society (in Japanese, with Momoko Kawakami, Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2021).