CONTRIBUTORS

Stephen C. Averill is assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. He has published articles on Jiangxi society and the Communist movement in Modem China (1983) and the Journal of Asian Studies (1987). Currently he is completing a book manuscript on the origins of the Jiangxi Communist movement on the basis of the dissertation for his Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Lenore Barkan worked for the Social Security Administration and has been assistant professor of political science at Whitman College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and is currently revising her dissertation on the political interactions of Nationalists, Communists, and local leaders in Rugao County, Jiangsu, during the Chinese Republic.

Lynda S. Bell is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. She is co-author of Chinese Communists and Rural Society , 1927-1934 (1978). Now she is working on a manuscript based on the dissertation for her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, "Merchants, Peasants, and the State: The Organization and Politics of Chinese Silk Production, Wuxi County, 1870-1937."

Timothy Brook is assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto. He has published Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History (1988) and The Asiatic Mode of Production in China (1989) and is currently working on a book manuscript on the Chinese gentry's patronage of Buddhist monasteries from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

Prasenjit Duara is associate professor of history at University of Chicago. He is the author of Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 . Currently he is engaged in a comparative study of nationalism and ethnicity in China and South Asia.

Joseph W. Esherick is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Reform and Revolution in China: The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei (1976) and The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (1987). He is currently beginning a study of the Communist movement in the villages of northern Shaanxi province in northwestern China.

Edward A. McCord is assistant professor of history at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has published an article on local militarization in Modern China and is currently working on a manuscript on the emergence of warlordism in republican China.

Mary Backus Rankin is an independent scholar of late imperial Chinese history. She is the author of Early Chinese Revolutionaries: Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911 ( 1971) and Elite Activism and Political Trans-formation in China: Zhejiang Province , 1865-1911 ( 1986). Currently she is beginning a manuscript on the public sphere in late imperial China.

William T. Rowe is professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 (1984) and Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895 (1989). At present he is engaged in research on the eighteenth-century statecraft official, Chen Hongmou.

R. Keith Schoppa is professor of history at Valparaiso University. He is the author of Chinese Elites and Political Change: Zhejiang Province in the Early Twentieth Century (1982) and Xiang Lake: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life (1989). His current project is a manuscript, "Arenas of Revolution: Shen Dingyi and Chinese Society."

David Strand is associate professor of political science at Dickinson College. He is the author of Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s (1989) and is currently engaged in research for a book on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930S and 1940s.

Rubie S. Watson is associate curator, Peabody Museum, and senior lecturer in anthropology, Harvard University. She is the author of Inequality Among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China ( 1985). Currently she is working on gender in South China village societies.

Madeleine Zelin is professor of history at Columbia University. She has published The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch'ing China (1984). At present she is preparing a manuscript on the late imperial socioeconomic history of the salt-producing industrial city of Zigong in Sichuan province.