Manjari Mahajan is Associate Professor of International Affairs, and the Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute at The New School. Her work is on global health, politics of science and technology, development, and philanthrocapitalism. Mark W. Frazier is Professor of Politics, and the Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute at The New School. His research examines China’s political economy in comparative perspective, including social policy and the politics of population aging.

• Introduction Manjari Mahajan and Mark W. Frazier PART I: MOBILIZING EXPERTISE: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND HIERARCHIES WITHIN STATES Chapter 1 Policymaking and Expertise in Telangana State: Mediating Knowledge and Interests in Pursuit of Economic Development and Social Justice in Hyderabad - Loraine Kennedy and Ram Mohan Chitta Chapter 2 Experts, Policymaking, and China’s Responses to Covid-19, Xuefei Ren Chapter 3 Experts and Policymakers in China’s Urban Waste Governance, Ceren Ergenc Chapter 4 Beyond Local State Corporatism and Entrepreneurial Political Selves: A Governance Assemblage Perspective on the Management of Foreigners in a Chinese County, Ka-Kin Cheuk PART II: LOGICS OF EXCLUSION - AND OCCASIONAL INCLUSION: POLICYMAKING AND KNOWLEDGE FROM LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Chapter 5 Gendering Scholar Activism in China’s Rural Development, Yang Zhan Chapter 6 Shifting Locations of Knowledge Production for Health Policies: Community Engagement in Palliative Care in the Indian State of Kerala, C U Thresia Chapter 7 Challenging the Centralized Hierarchy of Civil Nuclear Policy and Expertise in India: Anti-nuclear Opposition from the mid-2000s to late-2010s, Kesava Chandra Varigonda Chapter 8 Struggle for Stability: Coping with Covid-19 Community-Led Actions and Learning from M-East Ward of Mumbai, Avinash Madhale PART III: COMPARISONS AND GLOBAL FLOWS Chapter 9 Knowledge and Power: China’s High-tech Industry and the Perils of a Shifting Global Knowledge Hierarchy, Yu Zhou Chapter 10 Pushing and Pulling: Institutional Underpinnings of Energy Transitions in India and China, Rohit Chandra Chapter 11 Why China and India Diverged in Universal Elementary Education Policy: Implementation Measurement and the Culture of Expertise, Wenjuan Zhang Index