Yat Ming Loo is Associate Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research interests include intercultural architecture/city, postcolonial urbanism, urban memory, minority spaces and decolonising architecture. He is the author of Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur: Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City.

Hua Li is Professor and Deputy Director of Architectural History and Theory Research Institute, School of Architecture, at Southeast University, China. She has been interested in the relation between modernity and formation of architectural knowledge, history of modern Chinese architecture and cross-cultural practice of architecture.

Jing Xie is Associate Professor in Architecture and Built Environment, at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. With research interests in Chinese architecture and urbanism, he is the author of The Origin and Development of Dougong and Zaojing in Early China (2022), Chinese Urbanism: Urban Form and Life in the Tang-Song Dynasties (2020), Heritage-led Urban Regeneration in China (2017).

Eugenio Mangi is Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research interests are sustainable and resilient urban and rural transformations, local community engagement and participation and urban policy impact.