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  • Contributors

Chua Beng-Huat is associate professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore. Among his recent publications is “Culture, Multiracialism, and National Identity in Singapore,” in Trajectories: Inter-Asian Cultural Studies, ed. Kuan-hsing Chen (1998).

Jane C. Desmond is associate professor of American studies and women’s studies, University of Iowa, and the author of Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (1999).

Joshua Goldstein, assistant professor of history at Franklin and Marshall College, is interested in Peking opera and Republican-era social history.

Harry Harootunian is professor of history and director of East Asian studies, New York University. His article “Figuring the Folk” appeared in Mirror of Modernity, ed. Stephen Vlastos (1998).

Nick Kaldis is currently visiting assistant professor in the Chinese Program at the University of Minnesota. He recently completed a dissertation on Lu Xun’s Yecao [Wild grass] at Ohio State University.

L. H. M. Ling is a senior lecturer of international studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Her book Conquest and Desire: Postcolonial Learning between Asia and the West is forthcoming.

Tomoko Masuzawa is an associate professor of comparative literature and of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion (1993).

Tim Oakes, assistant professor of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of Tourism and Modernity in China (1998).

Mary Ann O’Donnell is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Rice University. She is working on urban planning in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.

Naoki Sakai is professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Cornell University. He is the author of Translation and Subjectivity (1997).

Eika Tai is associate professor of Japanese at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Tabunkashugi to Diasupora: Voices of San Francisco (1999).

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