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Tat Yan Kong is Professor of Comparative Politics and Development Studies at SOAS, and Co-director of the London Asia Pacific Centre for Social Science.

Hanee Kang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London, with research interests encompassing international development aid, aid philosophy, development discourse, postcolonialism, post-colonialism, colonial modernity, postcolonial donors, aid programs utilising national development experiences, and South Korean aid.

Dr Kang is an economic sociologist working in the field of political economy of development.

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Samuel Lai is a PhD candidate whose research project examines the multiple facades of Caacaanteng ('Tea Restaurant'): from licensing and popular history, ingredients and cuisines, server-customer relationship, skill acquisition, to sociability especially in the locally narrated form of Jancingmei ('Flavour of Human Warmth').