Author: Jeff Kyong-McClain

Yongtao Du is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Oklahoma State University. His research interests include translocal practices in late imperial China and literati geographic consciousness in China during the Song through the Qing. He received a Ph D in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Jeff Kyong-Mc Clain is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research explores the place of archeology in nation-building in modern China, Sino-Western interaction in China”s borderlands, and urban transformations during the Republican era. He received his Ph D in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009.