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  • Contributors

Christopher A. Bolton teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside, and is the author of “The Dialogue of Styles and the Dance of Fiction: Abe Kōbō’s The Face of Another,” in Bakhtinian Theory in Japanese Studies, edited by Jeffrey Johnson (2001).

Richard F. Calichman is currently working on a book on Takeuchi Yoshimi. He is teaching at the City College of New York.

John Cayley is an honorary research associate, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the author of Ink Bamboo: Poems, Translations, and Adaptations (1996).

Junichi Isomae is an assistant professor of historical studies at Japan Women’s University and the author of “Tanaka Yoshito and the Beginnings of Shinto-gaku,” in Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami, edited by John Breen and Mark Teenwen (2000).

Koichi Iwabuchi is an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at International Christian University, Tokyo, and the author of Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism (2002).

Andrew F. Jones is an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age (2001).

Charlene E. Makley is Luce Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Reed College and the author of “The Power of the Drunk: Humor and Resistance in China’s Tibet,” in Linguistic Form and Social Action: Michigan Discussion in Anthropology, edited by Jennifer Dickinson et al. (1998).

Ban Wang teaches comparative literature and Asian studies at Rutgers University and is the author of The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China (1997).

Jian Xu teaches comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and contributed “Blush from Novella to Film: The Possibility of Critical Art in Commodity Culture” to Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (spring 2000).

Yang Lian is a poet and an independent scholar. He is the author of Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems (1999).

Zhang Chengzhi is a freelance writer.

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