Everyday Modernity in China

Contributors

Contributors Alana BOLAND is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Program in Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the relationship between urban development and environmental governance in China since the 1950s. James A. COOK is an associate professor of history at Central Washington University. He specializes in the history of overseas Chinese, Fujian Province, and republican-era China. Madeleine Yue DONG is an associate professor of history and international studies at the University of Washington. Her most recent publications include Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories, and she is a co-editor (with Tani Barlow, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum) of The Modern Girl around the World. Joshua GOLDSTEIN is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern California. His areas of interest include Peking opera, urban economics, and environmental issues. He is the author of Drama Kings: The Nationalization of Peking Opera, 1870–1937. Rebecca KARL is an associate professor in the Departments of East Asian Studies and History at New York University. She is the author of Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century and co-editor of several books, including (with Peter Zarrow) Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China. Hanchao LU is a professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century and Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars. Brett SHEEHAN is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and most recently the author of Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. WANG Hui is a professor of modern Chinese literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His recent publications include China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition and Xiandai Zhongguo sixiang de xingqi [The rise of modern Chinese thought]. YAN Hairong is an assistant professor in the Departments of Anthropology and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign . She is the author of “Neo-liberal Governmentality and NewHumanism : Organizing Value Flow through Labor Recruitment Agencies” (Cultural Anthropology 18, no. 4, 2003) and “Spectralization of the Rural: Reinterpreting the Labor Mobility of Rural Young Women in Post-Mao China” (American Ethnologist 30, no. 4, 2003). Contributors 334 ...