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CONTRIBUTORS Gregory T. Chin is Senior Research Associate with the University of Toronto, Department of East Asian Studies (Governance and Development). He is currently First Secretary (Development) in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. Dr. Chin did his doctoral studies at York University (Canada) in political science and international relations. His research interests are on Chinese government reor­ ganization and party reform in the global era, Chinese public administration reform, and Asian foreign policy. (E-mail: Gregory. Chin@intemational.gc.ca, b-lil@northwestem.edu) Ashley Esarey, a former broadcast journalist, conducted extensive fieldwork in 2003-2004 on the politics of state management of the media in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou while a FulbrightHayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellow. Currently, he serves as Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Middlebury Col­ lege. (E-mail: aesarey@middlebury.edu) Bobai Li is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern Uni­ versity. His research interests are in the areas of social stratifica­ tion, organizations, political and economic sociology, and statisti­ cal methods. His on-going work focuses on the political dimen­ sions of social stratification and career mobility in state socialist societies. He has published in American Sociological Review and American Journal ofSociology. (E-mail: b-lil@>northwestem.edu) Fubing Su is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Vassar Col­ lege. He teaches comparative politics and political economy as well as Chinese politics and East Asian security issues in the Asian studies program. His recent research interests include state transi­ tion, regulatory politics, workplace safety, and women's political participation in China. (E-mail: fusu@vassar.edu) Waikeung Tam is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He specializes in Chinese politics and public policy, and law and politics. His research has appeared in American Asian Review and International Journal ofMed­ ical Informatics. (E-mail: waikeung@uchicago.edu) Fei-Ling Wang is Professor at the Sam Nunn School of Interna­ tional Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology. His most recent books are Organizing through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System (Stanford University Press, 2005) and China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (co-editor, Rowman & Lit­ tlefield, 2005). His articles have appeared in journals such as The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Pacific Affairs, and The Washington Quarterly. (E-mail: fei-ling.wang@inta.gatech.edu) Tianfu Wang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Qinghua (Tsinghua) University, Beijing. Wang's research interests include social inequality, family and marriage, economic sociology, and labor sociology. His current project focuses on the transformation of land use and the entrance of capital into these former residential areas in Chinese cities. With Bobai Li, he is now working on trust building in the Chinese real estate market and its socio-economic consequences. (E-mail: tfwang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn) Dali Yang, guest editor of this issue, is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Among his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transi­ tion and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press, 2004); Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997); and Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996). He is also co-editor and contributor to Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in PostDeng China (Cambridge University Press, 2004). (E-mail: daliyang@ uchicago.edu) Jin Zeng is a doctoral candidate in political science at Johns Hop­ kins University, majoring in comparative politics. Her dissertation is on the privatization of small and medium state-owned enter­ prises in China. She is currently conducting fieldwork in China on an International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. (E-mail: juliezj@gmail. com) ...

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