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  • Contributors

Jiemin Bao is associate professor of anthropology and ethnic studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her book, Marital Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora, was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2005.

Shehong Chen is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. Her book, Being Chinese Becoming Chinese American, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2002.

Emily Cheng is a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. in Literature at the University of California, San Diego in 2007. She is working on a book manuscript on the cultural politics of transnational adoption from China.

Peter X. Feng is associate professor of English and women's studies at the University of Delaware, where he teaches film history, Asian American studies, and cultural studies. An inaugural member of the JAAS editorial board, Feng is the author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video (Duke University Press, 2002) and the editor of Screening Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press, 2002). Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora (Temple University Press), coedited with Tan See-Kam and Gina Marchetti, will be published in 2009.

Tara Fickle is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is also pursuing a certificate in Asian American studies. Her research interests include twentieth-century American and British literature, systems theory, and contemporary Asian American literature. [End Page 237]

Steven J. Gold is professor and associate chair in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. He specializes in international migration, ethnic economies, and qualitative methods. He is currently writing a book on conflicts between immigrant entrepreneurs and their customers in the United States during the twentieth century.

Lianlian Lin is professor of management at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She received her Ph.D. degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin and LL.M. degree from the University of Pennsylvania law school. She was a member of the faculty at Fudan University in Shanghai and visiting professor at Peking University in China.

Haiming Liu is professor of Asian American studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is also the author of The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration (Rutgers University Press, 2005) and many articles on Chinese American history.

Josephine Nock-Hee Park is assistant professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics,(Oxford University Press, 2008) and she is presently working on a study of Asian American wartime subjects. [End Page 238]

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