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  • Contributors

Nicholas Bartlett, a medical and psychological anthropologist, is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. He currently is finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled Recovering Histories: Heroin, Labor, and Experiences of "Return" in Reform era China.

Mun Young Cho is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, South Korea. Her research focuses on poverty, labor, activism, development, and youth in China and South Korea. She is the author of the book The Specter of "the People": Urban Poverty in Northeast China (2013). Her current research focuses on changing landscapes of "the social" in China and South Korea.

Diane Wei Lewis is an assistant professor in the Program in Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is finishing a book manuscript on cinema, identification, and emotion in interwar Japan. [End Page 547]

Philip Kaffen is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages and Culture Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His research and teaching interests include moving images/photography, modern Japan, and philosophy, focusing on the themes of violence, sovereignty, and ecology. He is currently developing a book project that aims to explore the idea of cinema in Japan as a site of refuge from sovereignty.

Gerald Sim is associate professor of film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University, and the author of The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema (2014). He was the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia in 2016–17.

Malcolm Thompson is a historian of China based in Vancouver, Canada. [End Page 548]

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