Notes on Contributors

Sabine Breuillard is a historian and president of the Turgenev Library in Paris. She is the author of a dissertation, “Paul Milioukov: De l’historien á l’homme politique, formation d’une pensée politique, 1869–1905,” and a full bibliography of Miliukov’s works, which was published at the Institut d’études slaves. She has also published a series of articles on the Russian emigration.

Olga Bakich was born in China and belongs to the third generation of Harbin Russians. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto, and an editor of the literary-historical annual Rossiiane v Azii, published at the same university. Her book Harbin Russian Imprints: Bibliography as History 1898–1961 will be published by Norman Ross in 2001; an anthology of poetry by Russian poets in China, compiled jointly with Vadim Kreyd, is coming out in 2001 in Moscow.

James Carter, assistant professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, holds a Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from Yale University and is the author of a forthcoming book on Chinese nationalism in republican-era Harbin.

Elena Chernolutskaya, researcher at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East in Vladivostok (Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch), works on the political and social history of the Russian Far East. Her publications include a collection of documents on the Russian emigration to Manchuria between 1920 and 1945 (1994).

Prasenjit Duara, professor of history at the University of Chicago, is author of Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942 (1988) and Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (1995). His writings have been translated into both Chinese and Japanese. He is presently completing a manuscript tentatively titled “Manchukuo and the Frontiers of the East Asian Modern.”

Thomas Lahusen, professor of history and comparative literature, Duke University and University of Toronto, is the author of How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin’s Russia (1997). He is coeditor (with Véronique Garros and Natalia Korenevskaya) of Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s (1995) and coeditor (with Evgeny Dobrenko) of Socialist Realism without Shores (1997), which originated as a 1995 special issue of SAQ.

Hyun Ok Park is an assistant professor of sociology and East Asian studies at New York University. She is currently completing a book on Korean migration, Chinese nationalism, and Japanese imperialism from the late nineteenth century until 1945 in Manchuria.

Andre Schmid is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. His book on nationalism and colonialism, Korea between Empires, will be published by Columbia University Press in 2002.

Marika Asano Tamanoi, associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is author of Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women (1998) and has published articles in the Journal of Asian Studies, Annual Review of Anthropology, and Comparative Studies in Society and History.

David Wolff, visiting assistant professor of East Asian history at the University of Chicago and director emeritus of the Cold War International History Project, is the author of To the Harbin Station (1999), editor of Leadership Transition in a Fractured Bloc (1998), and coeditor of Rediscovering Russia in Asia (1995).

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