Chen Kuan-Hsing is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Coordinator of the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at the National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan. He is founding co-executive editor of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. His previous publications, in English and Chinese, include Trajectories: Cultural Studies Inter-Asia (2000) and Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, edited with Dave Morley, (1996).

Chua Beng Huat is professor in the Asia Research Institute and the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. He is founding co-executive editor of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. His previous publications include Life is Not Complete Without Shopping (2003) and Consumption in Asia: Lifestyles and Identities (2000).