1. Chair Professor of Greater China Studies, Department of Chinese Studies, and Director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, gunter.schubert@uni-tuebingen.de
2. Brown Professor and Assistant Dean for Educational Policy, Political Science Department, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA, shrigger@davidson.edu
3. Postdoctoral Researcher, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, beatrice.zani@univ-lyon2.fr
4. Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, shirley@virginia.edu
5. Professor, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, jaychen@sinica.edu.tw