Ryan Choi is a PhD candidate in Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where his thesis, Collaborationism in Wartime Hong Kong: The Cultural Production of Hanjian (Traitors) under Japanese Occupation, 1941–1945, explores the cultural and literary history of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. His research specifically focuses on marginalised cultural figures labelled as hanjian (漢奸), or traitors to the Han Chinese, in the post-war period. As a cultural historian, Ryan Choi engages with a diverse range of literature and archival documents from Japanese-occupied regions in East Asia, including Hong Kong, Manchukuo, and Shanghai during World War II, as well as colonial Taiwan. 

In 2024, Ryan Choi served as a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong History Centre at the University of Bristol. He previously earned an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 2021, and a BA in Chinese from the University of Hong Kong in 2019.

Matilde Belén Gálvez Sepúlveda (1982 – Santiago, Chile) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Master's degree in Art Theory and History from the Universidad de Chile. She has undertaken training and studies at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) and the MOA Museum of Art (Atami, Japan). She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, researching orientalisms in Chilean literature, and professor at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile in courses such as Japanese Culture, Japanese Arts, and Asian Arts. She has published articles such as “Carlos y Vivienne Barry: atrapados en Japón” (Intus-Legere Historia Journal, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 2021), “El problema de la sensación en la pintura de paisaje: del japonismo a Cézanne” (Cuadernos de trabajo, Center for Asian Studies PUC, 2023), and the book chapter “Medicina, cuerpo y subjetividad en el Japón de la posguerra: lecturas a partir de la obra El rostro ajeno de Abe Kobo y Teshigahara Hiroshi” in Ciencia ficción, espacio abierto: escrituras del porvenir (Ediciones Escaparate, 2025). Her lines of research include Japanese arts, landscape painting theory, orientalisms, orientalisms in Latin American and Chilean literature, Asian popular culture, and Asian visual arts.