Lucien Bianco is professor emeritus at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His books include Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915–1949 (fourth revised and expanded French edition, 2007), Peasants Without the Party: Grass-Roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China (2001), and Jacqueries et Révolution dans la Chine du XXe Siècle (2005).
Krystyna Horko is a freelance translator and editor. She graduated with a degree in Chinese studies from SO AS, University of London and obtained a British Council scholarship to China in 1976. She worked as a journalist and editor in Hong Kong before moving to Paris where she earned a postgraduate diploma in Chinese sociology from EHESS, and another in translation from École Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs.