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Notes on Contributors Elizabeth Chang, an Assistant Professor of British literature at the University of Missouri-Columbia, focuses in her research on nineteenth-century British visual culture and the British empire. She is currently at work on a book-length project detailing the British conception of a Chinese way of seeing that, in its reception, circulation, and revision, shaped the development of a modern British visual consciousness. A portion of this work, entitled “ ‘Eyes of the Proper Almond Shape’: Blue-and-White China in the British Imaginary, 1823–1883” appeared in 19th-Century Studies, Vol. 18 (2005). Nicholas Clifford, Emeritus Professor of History and former Provost at Middlebury College, holds his B.A. from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Among his works are Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners in Shanghai and the Chinese Revolution of the Nineteen Twenties (1991); A Truthful Impression of the Country: British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880–1949 (2001); and a novel, The House of Memory (1994). Ross G. Forman isVisitingAssistant Professor in the Department of English at Skidmore College in New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. A specialist in nineteenth-century imperialism, he is currently completing a book entitled Empires Entwined: Britain and the Representation of China, 1840–1911. His work has appeared in various journals, including Criticism, Victorian Studies, and Victorian Literature and Culture. He is also the author of the chapter on “Empire” in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle. Hugh Haughton teaches English at the University of York. He has recently completed Derek Mahon and Modern Irish Poetry (2008). He is the editor of The Chatto Book xii Notes on Contributors of Nonsense Poetry (1985); Rudyard Kipling, Wee Willie Winkie (1988); John Clare in Context: Bi-Centenary Essays with Adam Phillips (1994); Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1998); Elizabeth Bowen, To the North (1999); Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny (2003); and Second World War Poems (2004). He is currently coediting (with Valerie Eliot) the Letters of T.S. Eliot. Elaine Yee Lin Ho is Associate Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her recent publications include two monograph studies of Timothy Mo (Contemporary World Writers Series, 2000) and Anita Desai (Writers and Their Work Series, 2005). She has published articles on Hong Kong anglophone literature as minority literature, women and gender in the films of the Hong Kong filmmaker, Ann Hui, and Indo-English fiction. She is currently researching and writing on imperial globalization and vernacular cosmopolitanism in anglophone Hong Kong literature. Douglas Kerr is Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, and has been visiting scholar at Oxford and London universities. His published work includes Wilfred Owen’s Voices (1993) and George Orwell (2003), and essays and articles in Essays in Criticism, Textual Practice, Modern Language Review, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, etc. His current work is concerned with the history of representations of Eastern people and places in English writing, from the time of Kipling to the postcolonial period. He is on the editorial board of Critical Zone: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge. Julia Kuehn is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature and culture, with particular focus on popular writing. She is the author of Glorious Vulgarity: Marie Corelli’s Feminine Sublime in a Popular Context (2004), and has published in Women’s Writing and The Journal of Popular Culture. Her current work is on exoticism in novels set in North Africa, the Middle East and India, between 1880 and 1920. She is also coeditor of a collection of critical essays on recent developments in travel writing studies, and of a collection of critical essays entitled China Abroad: Travels, Spaces, Subjects. Susan Morgan, Distinguished Professor of English and Faculty Affiliate of Women’s Studies at Miami University of Ohio, is the author of In the Meantime: Character and Perception in Jane Austen’s Fiction; Sisters in Time: Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, and Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women’s Travel Writings about Southeast Asia. She has published critical editions of Anna Leonowens’ Romance of the Harem (1872); Marianne North’s Recollections of a Happy Life (1894); and Ada Pryer’s A Decade in Borneo (1893). Her present area of interest is Victorian women’s travel writings, particularly about South, Southeast...

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