Harriet Evans is Professor Emerita of Chinese Cultural Studies (University of Westminster) and Visiting Professor of Anthropology (LSE). She has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexuality in China, and on political posters and visual culture of the Mao era. Her third monograph, Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center was published by Duke University Press in 2020. Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage, co-edited with Michael Rowlands, was published in 2021 by Lexington Books. She is now in the early stages of shaping on a new multidisciplinary collective project on the legacies of Chinese migration to Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century. Apart from her academic work, Evans is actively involved in human rights work and in organising and participating in webinars and public events to increase public understanding of China.