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Chris Berry teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research is focused on Chinese cinemas and other Chinese screen-based media. His publications include Cinema and the National: China on Screen (with Mary Farquhar, 2006); Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (2004); and Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes (edited with Nicola Liscutin and Jonathan D. Mackintosh, 2009). Giorgio Biancorosso teaches musicology and film studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Recent publications include an essay on sound in The Routledge Companion to Film and Philosophy (2008) and the chapter “Ludwig’s Wagner and Visconti’s Ludwig”, in Wagner and Cinema (2009). He is completing the book Musical Aesthetics through Cinema. Biancorosso is also active in Hong Kong as a magazine writer and concert programmer. John M. Carroll is professor of history in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His recent publications include Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong (2005) and A Concise History of Hong Kong (2007). He has also published articles in Modern Asian Studies, Twentieth-Century China, Chinese Historical Review, Journal of Oriental Studies and China Information. Carolyn Cartier is professor of human geography and China studies in the China Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is the author of Globalizing South China (2001) and the co-editor of The Chinese Diaspora: Place, Space, Mobility and Identity (2003). She works on cultural political economy and city-region formation in South China, currently focusing on urbanism and contemporary alternative art in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta. Contributors ch00a(i-xi).indd 9 03/06/2010 12:52 PM x Contributors Pheng Cheah is professor in the Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (2003) and Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (2006). He is also the co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation (1998), Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (2003) and Derrida and the Time of the Political (2009). Esther M. K. Cheung teaches Hong Kong cultural studies, Chinese fiction and film, and urban cultures in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong (2009), editor of In Critical Proximity: The Visual Memories of Stanley Kwan (in Chinese, 2007) and co-editor of Hong Kong Literature as/and Cultural Studies (in Chinese, 2002) and Between Home and World: A Reader in Hong Kong Cinema (in Chinese, 2004). Chu Yiu-wai is professor in the Department of Chinese and head of the Humanities Programme at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research focuses on postcolonialism, globalization, Hong Kong cinema and Cantopop lyrics. His recent publications include The “China” in Contemporary Western Critical Discourse (in Chinese, 2006) and Lyrics of Your Life: The Transformation of Hong Kong Cantopop (in Chinese, 2009). David Clarke is professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong. He has written extensively on both Chinese and Western art and culture, with a primary focus on the twentieth century, and is also active as a photographer. His most recently published book is Hong Kong x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City (2007). Elaine Yee Lin Ho is professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her recent publications include a co-edited book, China Abroad (2009), on interconnections of nation and diaspora in different historical and geographical Chinese spaces, and essays on Anglophone world writing and Hong Kong writing in PMLA, Critical Zone and Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Mike Ingham has taught English studies in the English Department at Lingnan University since 1999. His publications include City Voices: An Anthology of Hong Kong Writing in English (2003); City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English (2005); Staging Fictions: The Prose Fiction Stage Adaptation as Social Allegory (2004); Hong Kong: A Cultural and Literary History in the City of the Imagination series (2007) and Johnnie To’s PTU (2009). ch00a(i-xi).indd 10 03/06/2010 12:52 PM [44.213.99.37] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 05:43 GMT) Contributors xi Douglas Kerr is professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He...