Contributors ROBERT F. ASH holds the Chiang Ching-kuo Chair of Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London. He is also co-ordinator of the EU-China Academic Network (ECAN). DAVID BACHMAN is professor and chair of the China Studies Program at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. He is the author of Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China, among other works, and is completing a book on defense industrialization under Mao. HUGH D. R. BAKER is Professor of Chinese and Head of the East Asia Department at SOAS. He has published extensively on Chinese family organization, on Hong Kong society, and on Chinese cultural matters. MARC BLECHER is Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. His most recent books are: China Against the Tides (recently translated into Chinese and Korean) and Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County (with Vivienne Shue). He is presently at work on a book provisionally entitled: A World to Lose: Workers’ Politics and the Chinese State. JOHN CHILD is Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, U.K. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His published works include Management in China during the Age of Reform. CHIH-PING CHOU is a Professor of East Asian Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His recent research has focused on modern Chinese intellectual history. DEBORAH DAVIS is Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Her most recent work is as editor of The Consumer Revolution in Urban China (2000). She is currently completing a book entitled A Home of Their Own on the social and familial consequences of urban housing reforms. FRANK DIKO¨ TTER is Director of the Contemporary China Institute at SOAS. He has recently finished a monograph on prisons in modern China and is leading a research team in an ESRC-funded project entitled Narcotic Culture: A Social History of Opiates in Modern China. LOWELL DITTMER is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1997), China Under Reform (1994) and many other analyses of PRC leadership behaviour. His most recent book (with Haruhiro Fukui and Peter N.S. Lee) is Informal Politics in East Asia (2000). RICHARD LOUIS EDMONDS is Editor of The China Quarterly and Senior Lecturer in Geography with reference to China at SOAS. He has written extensively on mainland China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. His publications include: Macau (1989); Patterns of China’s Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country’s Environmental Degradation and Protection (1994); and (ed.) Managing the Chinese Environment (1998). C. CINDY FAN is Associate Professor of Geography and Chair of the Asian American Studies Interdepartmental Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses upon regional development, urban systems and migration in China. DAVID FAURE is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and a Fellow of St. Anthony’s College at the University of Oxford. BERNHARD FUEHRER is lecturer in classical Chinese philosophy and language at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is author of Chinas erste Poetik. Das Shipin (Kriterion Poietikon) des Zhong Hong 566 The China Quarterly (1995) and Vergessen und verloren. Die Geschichte der oesterreichischen Chinastudien (2001), co-editor of Chinesisches Selbstverstaendnis und kul- turelle Identitaet (1996) and Tradition und Moderne. Religion, Philosophie und Literatur in China (1997). He is currently editing a volume on Censorship in China, Past and Present. TOM GOLD is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Red Guard generation. He studies private business in main- land China and socio-political change in Taiwan. STEVEN M. GOLDSTEIN is Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College. XIAOLIN GUO is a research associate at the Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies at Lund University, and teaches in the department of Social Anthro- pology at Lund University. Her current research projects are on rural urbanization and the ethnic dimension of rural economy in China. PETER HABERZETTL is a Hong Kong-based geographer. He is the author of various publications on Macau. THOMAS HEBERER is Professor of Political Science and East Asian Studies at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisberg, Ger- many. PETER HO is lecturer at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen Univer- sity. He has published articles through Modern China, Development and Change, The China Quarterly and M.E. Sharpe on themes of rural develop- ment, natural resource management, and environmental policy in China. YIN-PING HO is a faculty member in the Economics Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His most recent research and publications have focused on China’s foreign trade and investment. RUPERT HODDER is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Plymouth, U.K. He writes on China and Southeast Asia. His publications include: Merchant Princes of the East: Cultural Delusions, Economic Success and the Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia (1996) and In China’s Image: Chinese Self-Percep- tion in Western Minds (2000). CARSTEN A. HOLZ is an Assistant Professor in the Social Science Division of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has published on financial and macroeconomic issues in China, most recently on rural finance, investment control and SOE reform. CHRISTOPHER HOWE is Professor of Chinese Business and Management, Centre for Financial and Management Studies, SOAS. Recent publications include: The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology from 1540 to the Pacific War (new edn. 1999); Chinese Technology Transfer in the 1990’s, ed., with Charles Feinstein (1997); The Chinese Economic Reform: A Study with Documents (forthcoming 2001, with Y.Y.Kueh and R.A. Ash). CHANG-TAI HUNG is Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is author of War and Popular Culture: Resist- ance in Modern China, 1937–1945 (1994) and other publications on modern Chinese cultural history. ANDREW F. JONES is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age (2001). VICTOR S. KAUFMAN is Assistant Professor of History at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. He is the author of Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China (2001). FUNG KWAN teaches economics and co-ordinates the Economics Programme and the Contemporary China Studies Programme at the University of Macau. His Contributors 567 research interests include development economics and rural development in China, especially labour issues. KENNETH LIEBERTHAL is Professor of Political Science and William Davidson Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan. Amongst his many publications is Governing China: From Revolution through Reform (1995). HONG LIU teaches at the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. He has published many articles on the Chinese overseas and on Sino-Southeast Asian interactions. He is a co-editor of the 12-volume Encyc- lopedia of Chinese Overseas (Beijing from 1998). YI-MIN LIN teaches at the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. ANDREW LO is Senior Lecturer in Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His main area of research is Ming and Qing dynasty litera- ture and the life of the literati. SHEILA OAKLEY is a member of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Western Australia, where she recently completed a Ph.D. Thesis entitled Labour Relations in China’s Socialist Market Economy: The Operation of the Labour Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Committee 1987–1996. JEAN C. OI is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies, Stanford University. Her research has focused on questions of poilitical economy and the process of reform in traditional systems. She is the author of Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform, and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government. She is the co-editor of Property Rights and Economic Reform in China (1999). CLIFTON W. PANNELL is Professor of Geography and Associate Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. His research centres on China’s urban and economic geography, and his most recent work (with Sun Sheng Han) is on the geography of privatization in China (1999). PHILIP C. SAUNDERS is Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. VIVIENNE SHUE is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Chinese Government and Director of the East Asia Program at Cornell University. DAVID SHAMBAUGH is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. He was Editor of The China Quarterly, 1991–1996. His most recent book, Modernizing China’s Military: Progress and Problems, will appear later this year from University of Califor- nia Press. TERRY SICULAR is Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Tran- sition Economies Research Forum at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Her current research is on the topics of of income distribution, poverty, and labour in China. MARIA TROGOSO works in the Division of Cultural and International Affairs, Uni- versidade Aberta in Lisbon. Between 1990 and 1999 she taught in the Universidade de Macau. Her translation of Sanzijing with commentary will be published in Lisbon as the first step in a research project on Chinese traditional primers. ANDREW G. WALDER is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, where he is also a Senior Fellow in the Institute of International Studies.