All Roads Lead to the American City

Contributors

œ˜ÌÀˆLÕ̜Àà 0RISCILLA 2OBERTS received her degrees from King’s College, Cambridge. Since 1984 she has taught history at the University of Hong Kong, where she is associate professor and also honorary director of the Centre of American Studies. She has published articles on twentieth-century diplomatic and international history, with a special interest in Anglo-American relations, in the Business History Review, Journal of American Studies, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and other periodicals. She is the author of The Cold War (2000), and the editor of Sino-American Relations Since 1900 (1991); Window on the Forbidden City: The Beijing Diaries of David Bruce, 1973–1974 (2001); and Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the World Beyond Asia (2006). She is associate editor of several encyclopedias published by ABC-CLIO, including the Encyclopedia of the Korean War (2000); Encyclopedia of World War II (2004); World War II: A Student Encyclopedia (2005); Encyclopedia of World War I (2005); World War I: A Student Encyclopedia (2005); and Encyclopedia of the Cold War (forthcoming). She is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on women and international relations. Currently she is working on a major study of the twentiethcentury trans-Atlantic foreign policy establishment. 'INA -ARCHETTI is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, the University of Hong Kong. Previously, she was Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. In 1995 her book, Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction, won the award for best book in the area of cultural studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. She has published in anthologies such as Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness; Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies; At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World; Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century; Out of the Shadows: Asians  Contributors in American Cinema; Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism; The Cinema of Hong Kong; Transnational Chinese Cinemas; The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of United States Cinema; Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema, and others. Her current books are From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, and Hollywood and the New Global Cinema (co-edited with Tam See Kan). 0ETER 3WIRSKI is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture and Director of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong. His specialty is twentieth-century American literature, history, and culture, as well as interdisciplinary studies in literature, philosophy, and science. Recognized internationally as the leading Stanislaw Lem scholar, he has published more than fifty articles in professional journals and lectured in the Americas, Europe and Asia. His books are: A Stanislaw Lem Reader (1997); Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem, and Explorations in Aesthetics, the Cognitive Sciences, and Literary Knowledge (2000); From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005); The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem (2006); Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory (2007); and Ars Americana, Ars Politica (forthcoming). %ARLE 7AUGH is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. Schooled at the University of Chicago under Mircea Eliade and Joseph Kitagawa, he focused his early work on Islamic Studies. This led him to explore the wide variety of expressions of that religion and culture, including those in North America. This work led, among others, to the publication of his Diasporic Studies in North America: The Muslim Community in North America (1983), The Muslim Family in North America (1991), and The Shaping of an American Islamic Discourse (1998). Most recently, he co-edited Diaspora Serbs: A Cultural Analysis (2004). Waugh has been a much sought-after commentator in the media on Muslim affairs, and has often lectured both in Canada and the United States on Islamic Affairs. His commitment to cross-cultural understanding won him the Prelorentzos Peace Award for lifelong educational activity for peace in 2004. Until recently chair of the interdisciplinary department of Comparative Literature, Religion and Film Studies, he is currently director of the Centre for the Cross-Cultural Study of Health and Healing in the University’s Department of Family Medicine, as well as consultant on cultural and ethnic issues in America and beyond. 7ILLIAM *OHN +YLE was born in the United Kingdom and holds a PhD in Geography from McMaster University in Canada. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Arts, the University of...