Contributors
- Contributors
Jack W. Chen is associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (2010) as well as of various articles relating to medieval Chinese literature and culture.
Christoper P. Hanscom is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea (2013) and coeditor of Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era (2013).
Guo-Juin Hong is associate professor of Chinese culture in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and director of the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. His book, Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen (2011), is the first full-length study of Taiwan cinema in the English language that covers its entire history since the colonial period. [End Page 761]
Maki Isaka is associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, teaching Japanese theater and premodern literature, as well as gender studies. She is the author of Secrecy in Japanese Arts: “Secret Transmission” as a Mode of Knowledge (2005) and journal articles on onnagata in terms of gender and on shingeki theater.
Aaron Kerner is an associate professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. The current interview is part of ongoing research studying the ways in which butoh and the body materialize in film and video.
David J. Kim received his doctorate in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia University in 2009. He is currently working on a book project based on his dissertation, “Divining Capital: Spectral Returns and the Commodification of Fate in South Korea.”
Robert Oppenheim received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2003 and is presently associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies and director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Kyŏngju Things: Assembling Place (2008) and is currently completing a manuscript on the role and figure of Korea in American anthropology between 1882 and 1945.
Philippe Peycam is the director of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is the founding director of the Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Dr. Peycam is the author of The Birth of Modern Political Journalism, Saigon, 1916–30 (2012).
Ben Tran is an assistant professor of Asian Studies and English at Vanderbilt University. He is completing a manuscript entitled Post-Mandarin: Aesthetic Modernity and Masculinity in Colonial Vietnam.
Qi Wang is an assistant professor of cinema and media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology. She is writing a book on memory, subjectivity, and contemporary Chinese independent cinema. [End Page 762]
