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  • Contributors

Anita Wen-Shin Chang is an independent filmmaker and visiting lecturer in the Department of Indigenous Languages and Communication at National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan. Her latest feature documentary, Joyful Life (2007), was coproduced by Taiwan public television.

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is an honorary professor of Chinese media at the University of Sydney and foundation Dean of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Melbourne. She recently published Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change (2009).

Tamara Jacka is a Senior Fellow (Associate Professor) in the Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. She is the author of Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006), which won the Francis Hsu Award for best book in East Asian anthropology in 2007.

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon is Associate Professor of English at the University of San Diego. He has recently finished a book entitled Racial Things: Visuality and Racialization in Avant- Garde Asian American Poetry. [End Page 741]

Ken C. Kawashima, a professor at the University of Toronto Department of East Asian Studies, recently published The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan (Duke University Press, 2009).

Jin-kyung Lee teaches modern Korean literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Proletarianizing Sexuality and Race: Transnational Labors of South Korea since 1965, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press.

James E. Roberson is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Tokyo Jogakkan College. His publications on Okinawan music include "Uchinā Pop: Place and Identity in Contemporary Okinawan Popular Music," in Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power, ed. Laura Hein and Mark Selden (2003).

Gary Sigley is Associate Professor in Asian Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Western Australia. With Elaine Jeffreys he recently coedited a special issue of Economy and Society (vol. 35, no. 4 [2006]) on the theme "Chinese Governmentalities."

Wanning Sun is Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies at China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Her most recent publication is Maid in China: Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (2009).

Luigi Tomba works in the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He is coeditor of the China Journal.

T. E. Woronov, a lecturer at the University of Sydney, recently published "Performing the Nation: China's Children as Little Red Pioneers" in Anthropological Quarterly (Fall 2007).

Yi Zheng is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney. She recently published "A La Mode —the Provincial Cosmopolitan," in Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change, ed. S. H. Donald and E. Kofman (2009). [End Page 742]

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