Contributors
- Contributors
Tina Mai Chen is associate professor of history at the University of Manitoba. Recent publications include "Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s-1950s," in Reform, Revolution, and Radicalism in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner (2011).
Harry Harootunian is an adjunct senior professor in the Weatherhead Institute of East Asian Studies, Columbia University, and a visiting professor of literature, Duke University. His most recent publication is The Struggle between History and Memory (in Japanese, 2010).
Rebecca Karl teaches history at New York University. Her latest book is Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History (2010).
Maya Kóvskaya (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2009) is a Delhi-based scholar, art critic, curator, writer, and translator with over a decade of experience in China. She has curated many international exhibitions, and her publications, including her book China Under Construction: Contemporary Art from the People's Republic (2007), appear regularly in art books, academic volumes, and magazines. She has taught at the university level in the United States and China, lectured in India, and is conducting research on art interventions and the public sphere in China and India. She recently received the 2010 Yishu Award for Critical Writing on Contemporary Chinese Art. [End Page 421]
Tom Lamarre teaches in East Asian Studies and Communications Studies at McGill University and writes on media, technology, and history of thought.
Boreth Ly is assistant professor of Southeast Asian art history and visual culture at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Rosalind C. Morris (PhD, University of Chicago, 1994) is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Her most recent books include Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia (2009) and the edited volume, Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea (2010). Her writings on the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will be published in 2012 under the title of Wars I Have (Not) Seen.
Claudia Pozzana teaches Chinese literature at Bologna University. She has translated and presented a selection of essays of Li Dazhao and several collections of contemporary Chinese poets. Her most recent book is La poesia pensante: Inchieste sulla poesia cinese contemporanea (The Thinking Poetry: Enquiries on Contemporary Chinese Poetry, 2010).
Christophe Robert received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University in 2005. He currently teaches in the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. His academic research focuses on the political aftermath of war and state violence and their long-term effects in urban areas throughout Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Lisa Rofel teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent publications include Desiring China: Experiments in Neo-liberalism, Sexuality and Public Culture (2007), a special issue of positions coedited with Petrus Liu, "Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics" (2010), and The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record (2010), coedited with Chris Berry and Lu Xinyu.
Alessandro Russo teaches sociology at Bologna University. His recent publications are La sociologia di Freud: Una lettura de "Il disagio della Civiltà" (The Sociology of Freud: A Reading of "Civilisation and Its Discontents," 2008) and Destini dell'università: Politica, formazione, incompletezza del sapere (Destinies of University: Politics, Formation, and Incompleteness of Knowledge, 2009). He has finished a manuscript on the first months of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Theatre, History, and Politics: The Opening Scene of the Cultural Revolution.
Naoki Sakai teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies and is a member of the Graduate Field of History program at Cornell University. He has published in a number of languages in the fields of comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, the studies of racism and nationalism, and the histories of semiotic and literary multitude—speech, writing, corporeal expressions, calligraphic regimes, and phonographic [End Page 422] traditions. His publications include Translation and Subjectivity: On "Japan" and Cultural Nationalism (1997) and Kibō to Kenpō (Hope and the Consitution) (2009).
Jesook Song is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She wrote South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society...
