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  • Contributors

Michael Berry, assistant professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of a forthcoming collection of interviews with Chinese filmmakers, Speaking in Images.

Don Mee Choi, author of “Translation and the Korean Mudang,” Arts and Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture (2000), specializes in contemporary Korean women’s poetry and translation.

Darrell W. Davis teaches .lm history and Asian cinema at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film (1996).

Lei Guang teaches political science at San Diego State University. He is working on a book manuscript on rural-urban divisions in China.

Laura Hein, associate professor of Japanese history at Northwestern University, is the author of “Savage Irony: The Imaginative Power of the Military Comfort Women in the 1990s,” Gender and History (1999). “Statistics for Democracy” is drawn from her forthcoming book, Reasonable Men. [End Page 801]

Namhee Lee, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, is working on a book manuscript on representation of minjung (common people) in the South Korean democratization movement, 1960–1988.

Liu Huiying, a researcher at the China National Museum of Modern Literature, specializes in modern Chinese feminism.

Andrea Louie teaches anthropology at Michigan State University. She is completing a book manuscript titled “Chineseness across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States.”

Jamie Morgan, a social sciences associate lecturer, Asia Pacific Studies, Open University, researches on the effects of mainstream economic modeling on World Bank policy.

Xiaobing Tang, associate professor of modern Chinese literature and culture, University of Chicago, is the author of Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian (2000).

Robin Visser, assistant professor of Chinese language and modern literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is completing a book manuscript titled “The Urban Subject in the Literary and Cultural Imagination of Post-Mao China.”

Wang Xiaoming, professor of modern Chinese literature and director of the Center for Contemporary Culture Studies at Shanghai University, specializes in modern Chinese literary history and1990s urban culture in mainland China.

Yan Hairong, a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton University Society of Fellows, is completing a thesis titled “Development, Contradictions, and the Spectre of Disposability: Rural Migrant Women in Search of Self-Development in Post-Mao China.” [End Page 802]

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