Kingsley Edney Author & Editor

Glenn D. Hook is Toshiba International Foundation Anniversary Research Professor in the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has published widely in Japanese as well as in English on Japanese and East Asian politics and international relations, especially in relation to security, risk and governance.

Libby Lester is Professor of Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research on public debate over land use and environmental risks is widely published internationally.

Meng Ji is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She specialises in advanced digital humanities research methodologies, especially the design and the computational analysis and quantitative modelling of multilingual corpora ranging from classical literature and historical linguistics to global environmental media, cross-national health risk assessment and health references and guidelines for non-communicable diseases.

Kingsley Edney is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations of China in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda: International Power and Domestic Political Cohesion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Chris G. Pope is a PhD student of the School of East Asian Studies, the University of Sheffield, UK, and part of the White Rose East Asian Centre. His thesis, which employs a mixed-methods approach to examine the speeches of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, is funded by the Economics and Social Research Council.

Luli van der Does-Ishikawa is a research team member of the European Research Council project 'War Crimes and Empire' in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. She specialises in the interdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative study of social and political discourses with a focus on the transient loci of risk and responsibility in multistakeholder media discourse.