Autor: Chia-lin Pao Tao

About the Editors:Shanshan Du (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. She authored Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs: Gender Unity and Gender Equality among the Lahu of Southwest China (Columbia University Press) and co-edited “Negotiating Women“s Roles and Power: The Practice of World Religions in Contemporary Asia” (a special issue of Religion). She is a recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Mellon Foundation/ACLS. Ya-chen Chen is Assistant Professor of Foreign Literature and Director of Chinese Language Program at Clark University, and formerly affiliated with the City University of New York (with the same titles and Asian Studies Director), in both of which this book was prepared. Her academic books include Farewell My Concubine: Same-Sex Readings and Cross-Cultural Dialogues (2004); Women in Taiwan: Sociocultural Perspectives (2009); Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate (2009); and The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism (2011).Contributors: Monica Cable, Hillary Crane, William R. Jankowiak, Shao-hua Liu, Murray A. Rubinstein, Lihong Shi, Chia-lin Pao Tao, Rubie S. Watson, James Wilkerson