Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism

List of Contributors

List of Contributors Mau-kuei Chang is a research fellow of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and adjunct Professor of the Department of Sociology, Taiwan University. His research and teaching interests include social movement studies, identity politics, and ethnic and nationalism. His recent publications include the formation of multiculturalism in Taiwan, and the studies of Waishengren (mainlanders) in Taiwan. He has an edited volume (with Zheng Yong-nian) titled “Social Movement Studies on both Sides of Taiwan Strait” (Xin Ziran, 2002). He received his PhD degree in sociology from Purdue University in 1984, and has visited UC Berkeley and McGill University as Fulbright and exchange scholar; and has been a Visiting Chair professor at Leiden University of the Netherlands. He served as the President of Taiwanese Sociological Association (2008–2009). Ya-Chung Chuang has a PhD from Duke University and teaches anthropology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Chuang is the author of “Democracy in Action: The Making of Social Movement Webs in Taiwan” (Critique of Anthropology, 2004) and “Place, Identity, and Social Movements: Shequ and Neighborhood Organizing in Taipei City” (Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 2005). He is currently writing a book concerning social movements and cultural politics in contemporary Taiwan. Allen Chun is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His research interests include socio-cultural theory, (trans)national identity and (post)colonial formations. In addition to Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of ‘Land’ in the New Territories of Hong Kong (Harwood Academic Publications 2000, reprinted by Routledge, 2002), he has edited a special double issue in Cultural Studies 14(3–4) entitled “(Post)colonialism and Its Discontents”, a special issue in Social Analysis 46(2), entitled “Global Dissonances,” and co-edited a book entitled Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos and Aesthetic Industries (Routledge-Curzon). His major papers have appeared in diverse journals. x · List of Contributors Arif Dirlik lives in Eugene, Oregon, in semi-retirement. He most recently held the first Liang Qichao Memorial Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University, Beijing (2010) and the Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi (2011). Dirlik taught at Duke University for thirty years as professor of history and anthropology before moving in 2001 to the University of Oregon where he served as Knight Professor of Social Science, Professor of History and Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies. From 2007 to 2009, he was Chair Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor by Courtesy of the Departments of History and Cultural Studies, and Honorary Director of the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia Pacific Center for Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His most recent book-length publications are Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity (the “Liang Qichao Memorial Lectures”) (The Chinese University Press, 2011) and Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism (Paradigm Publishers, 2006). Yuhua Guo, is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University. She received her PhD (1990) from Beijing Normal University. Her main areas of research are anthropology, peasants’ oral history, social memory, and problems of social justice in the process of social transformation. Recent publications include “Life Cycle and Social Security: A Sociological Exploration into the Life Course of Laid-Off and Unemployed Workers,” Social Sciences in China, 2005: 5; “Psychological Collectivization: Cooperative Transformation of Agriculture in Jicun Village, Northern Shaanxi, as in the Memory of the Women,” Social Sciences in China (Winter 2003); “Digital Divide and Social Cleavage: Case Studies of ICT Usage among Peasants in Contemporary China,” The China Quarterly (September 2011). Guannan Li is currently teaching Asian history at Dowling College on the Long Island, New York state. Guannan graduated from Peking University as an undergraduate with a broad training in history, philosophy, and literature. His PhD dissertation from the University of Oregon explores the GMD ideology of “national revival” and its social implementations in the 1930s. Guannan is currently working on a book manuscript that is based on his PhD dissertation. Liang Yue is an MPhil candidate of Chinese Culture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include modern Chinese intellectual history, Chinese feminism and modernity. List of Contributors · xi Tan Chee-Beng (PhD, Cornell...