Born in Yan’an in 1980, Jia Qin started cross-genre writing in 2000 and released his first digital fiction Five-Volume Book through Toshiba SD cards in 2007. His other publications include A Dictionary of Modernist Literature (New World Press, 2010), The Gorgeous Tiger’s Stripes (Preparation of the Dictionary) (The Writers Publishing House, 2019), Yi Tao (One Villain and 49 Horses, 2020), and Nine Questions (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2022). Jia is also one of the chief editors of the book collection Wooden Bell Literature, in which he systematically introduces the Oulipo genre to Chinese readers for the first time.

He graduated from Xiamen University in Art Management (BA) and China Academy of Art in Curatorial Studies (MA).He was involved in the creation of AXIS Art Project in 2015. Its first exhibition is "The Possibility of An Island", and the second exhibition "The Amoy Meat Factory" was selected by the Emerging Curators Project of Power Station of Art. The third exhibition "Pro-performance Society" is in progress. In 2016, he founded the independent art space 404 Not Found Lab, which has developed a series of community-based theatre-art practices in Houtian, Xiamen.

 Tying Knots is an independent group committed to introducing anthropological perspectives, studies, and engagements to the Chinese-speaking public.We share short articles, translated essays, book/article reviews, interviews, commentaries, emergent ethnographies, multimedia presentations, and other anthropologically-informed works. The core members are Wang Jing, Ye Wei, An Mengzhu, Zeng Yukun, Lin Zihao.

Wang Jing

China

Research interests: Anthropology of Islam; New Media and Global Communication; Sound Studies and Podcasting; Feminist Theories and Practices; Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism; Contemporary China and Sinophone Worlds. Long-term topics of editorial attention: Topics related to Gender and Women; Religion, Nation, and Modernity; Ethnographic Writing and  Methods; Anthropological Cross-disciplinary Practice and Pedagogy; Translation; Public Scholarship.

Ye Wei

China

Research Interests: medical anthropology, economic anthropology, animal studies, Chinese medicines, East Africa, Afro-Asia. Long-term topics of editorial attention: Multi-species, transnationalism, race and ethnicity, globalization and capitalism, oceanic anthropology, ethnographic writings, feminism

An Mengzhu

China

Research Interests: anthropology of morality and ethics, medical anthropology, child rearing, psycho boom, family and intimacy, disability studies. Long-term topics of editorial attention: Mental disability and Neurodevelopmental disorder, violence, care, hope, body and mind, urban ethnography, human-nonhuman relation.

Zeng Yukun

China

Research Interests: Value theory, semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social studies of education, economic anthropology, social movement, labor and action, literacy and reading, ritual and religion, STS, historical anthropology, space-time, political anthropology, media and journalism. Long-term topics of editorial attention: Public Anthropology, Emergent issues, Education, Language, Environment, Economy, Politics, Methodology, Knowledge Production, Histories and philosophies of anthropology and other social sciences

Lin Zihao

China

Research interests: Disability Studies, Medical Anthropology, STS, New Media and political Communication. Long-term topics of editorial attention: Accessible City, Universal Design, Sign Language and Deaf Cultures, Cross-Disability Rights Movement, Media Representation of Disability, Ethnographic Methods

Born in Wuhan, Hubei, now lives and works in Hangzhou. She graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Art (BA), Maryland Institute College of Art (Post-Bacc), and the School of Art Institute of Chicago (MFA). Now she is a Ph.D candidate in the Fiber Art Department of China Academy of Art and teaches in the Fiber Art Department. Recent exhibitions: 2019, the 1st International Natural Dyeing Biennale, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou; 2019, the 16th International Triennial of Tapestry, Central Textile Museum, Lodz, Poland, works were collected by the Central Textile Museum of Poland; 2019, Asian Youth Art Festival, represented by LVS Gallery, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea; 2021, Rough Translation, jiachen Liu solo exhibition (solo) Menifesto Gallery, The US; 2019 Echoing Time, the 3rd Fiber New Talents Exhibition, Da Wu Ding Cultural Center, Hangzhou; Xian Mo, Weaving & We Art Space, Xiangshan Art Commune, Hangzhou; 2020 MoCA SNOOPY 70th Anniversary, What a Wonderful Day, MoCA Shanghai; 2021 Fang Cun Zhi Jian，Nantong Wuji Art Center, Nantong.

After living and pursuing studies in France for 10 years, she returned to China and now lives in Hangzhou.She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Social Thought at the China Academy of Art. Her research directions come from the interconnected problematic fields of History & Iconology, Games & Arts, Surrealism & European Avant-Garde Movements. She has curated "Play Societies: wolf, lynx and ants" (Hyundai Blue Prize winning exhibition, 2020) ,participated curating for « Inter-World-View 2019 », « Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2019 » in Hangzhou, and « Je vous salue, Hypnos ― Un voyage en Poesie-performance vers la nuit » at McaM.  She published in “New Arts”, “China photography”, “LEAP”, “The Thinker”, “Art China”, “Pengpai”, “Heichi”magazine, etc.  Her artistic work  was recently exhibited at China Port Museum, OCAT Institute, CACP Villa Perochon(FR), Jimei X Arles, Lianzhou Foto Festival.

Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art and Social Thought at the China Academy of Art with a Ph.D., she has long been engaged in research, translation, planning and publishing related to contemporary art and French literature.

Zian Chen is a curator and one of the editors for Made in Public (2022), Olympic Reveries (2021), and Arrow Factory: The Last Five Years (2020). He was among the founding editorial team for Heichi Magazine, (2020-22). He also co-curated exhibitions at Nida Art Colony (2022), MadeIn Gallery (2021), Long March Space (2018-19), and Times Museum (2018).

Kong Yuye is a Peking University PhD candidate who specializes in media, technology, and gender of 20^th century China. Kong’s current research focuses on women and textile in the Chinese Revolution, and how textile techniques were spread and practised in border regions. 

Shi Bing was born in 1989 in Liaoning. He graduated from the School of Sculpture and Public Art of China Academy of Art (CAA) and obtained a master's degree in fiber art. He now lives Hangzhou and works at the Department of Fiber Art of CAA. Shi Bing's work explores the imbalance of individual lives in the real world, examines the ontological properties of the human being in an anachronistic state.