Contributors
- Contributors
Tani Barlow is Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor at Rice University where she teaches history. A recent essay, “Commercial Advertising Art in 1840–1940 ‘China’,” is forthcoming in Martin Powers and Katherine Tsiang, eds., The Oxford Companion of Chinese Art (2015).
William A. Callahan is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics. His recent books include China Dreams: 20 Visions of the Future (2013), China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy (coedited, 2011), and China: The Pessoptimist Nation (2009).
Ian Condry is professor of Japanese culture and media studies and head of Global Studies and Languages at MIT. He is the author of The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story (2013) and Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization (2006).
Benjamin Elman is the Gordon Wu 1958 Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of East Asian studies and history at Princeton University. He is the author of On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1500–1900 (2005) and A Cultural History of Modern Science in Late Imperial China (2006). [End Page 195]
James Farrer is professor of sociology and global studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, specializing in urban studies, cultural sociology, and sexuality studies. His recent research projects have focused on the lives of expatriates in Shanghai, including their work lives, sexuality, marriage, family, child rearing, and urban place making.
James Hevia is professor of international history and the New Collegiate Division and director of the International Studies Program at the University of Chicago. His most recent book is The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia (2012).
Jack Linchuan Qiu is associate professor of journalism and communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China (2009).
Qin Shao is professor of history at The College of New Jersey. Her recent research focuses on the human dimension of China’s rapid urbanization. She is the author of Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity (2013) and Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890–1930 (2004).
Jing Wang, jointly appointed in Global Studies and Languages and Comparative Media Studies/Writing, is professor of Chinese media and cultural studies at MIT. She is the author of Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture and “TV, Digital, and Social TV: A Reflection,” in Media Industries (January 2015).
Winnie Won Yin Wong is assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research areas include contemporary art and visual culture, with an emphasis on Sino-Western artistic encounters. She is the author of Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade (2014).
Guobin Yang is associate professor of communication and sociology in the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009).
Zhou Kui teaches in the faculty of Journalism and Communication at the Communication University of China in Beijing. From 2006 to 2008, he worked as a documentary journalist for Phoenix Satellite TV in Hong Kong, where he was awarded the 2009 Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for his documentary work on the Sichuan earthquake. [End Page 196]
