Contributors
- Contributors
Giovanni Arrighi is a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many influential articles and books on the political economy of the world system. His latest book is Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century (2007).
Tani E. Barlow teaches at the University of Washington. A cofounder of the Project for Critical Asian Studies, she is author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (2004).
Andre Gunder Frank, who passed away in April 2005, was one of this era’s great radical intellectuals and inimitable voices. One of the founders of “dependency theory” and world systems analysis, he published voluminously from 1955 until 2004, including ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age (1998).
Matthew A. Hale is a student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. His research concerns agrarian issues, education, and alternative development activism in China.
Han Yuhai is an associate professor of Chinese literature at Beijing University. His most recent book is Tian xia (2006).
Tobias Hübinette (Korean name, Lee Sam-dol) holds a PhD in Korean studies in the Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, Sweden. His recent book, Comforting an Orphaned Nation: Representations of International Adoption and Adopted Koreans in Korean Popular Culture (2006), examines the Korean adoption issue.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor and director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Among her publications is A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999).
Daniel F. Vukovich is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, “Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West’s Post-Mao China,” that makes the case for a global, China-centered reconstitution of Orientalism since Edward Said and the 1970s.
Yiman Wang is an assistant professor of film and digital media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of “The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong’s ‘Yellow Yellowface’ Performance in the Art Deco Era,” Camera Obscura (2005).
Yan Hairong teaches at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her book Belaboring Development: Migration and Domestic Service in Post-Mao China is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Urs Matthias Zachmann is an assistant professor at the Japan Center of the University of Munich. He has written his doctoral thesis on China’s role in late Meiji geopolitical and geocultural discourse and has published a number of articles on late Tokugawa and Meiji diplomatic and intellectual history.
