Contributors

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Thomas Chen is an assistant professor of Chinese at Lehigh University. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film. He is the author of Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.Xiuying Cheng is an associate professor with the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. Her research area includes social theory, political sociology, and China studies.Erica Kanesaka is a postdoctoral research associate in gender studies at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She will be starting as an assistant professor of Asian American literature and culture at Emory University in 2022. Her research has appeared in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, Oxford Literary Review, and Victorian Studies.Wenqing Kang is an associate professor of history at Cleveland State University. He is author of Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900–1950 (2009).Jihoon Kim is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at Chung-Ang University in South Korea. He is the author of Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary (2022) and Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (2016). He is currently finalizing Post-verité Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21st Century, the first English-written scholarly monograph on the subject.Chungjae Lee is an assistant professor of military studies at the Republic of Korea Air Force Academy. He has published articles in European Journal of Political Theory, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Korean Aesthetics. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the discourse of democratic transformation in early twentieth-century Imperial Japan and colonial Korea with an emphasis on the political thought of Minobe Tatsukichi (1873–1948) and Cho Soang (1887–1958).Jerry Won Lee is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as faculty affiliate in the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies as well as core faculty in the Culture and Theory PhD program.Malcolm Thompson is a historian of China based in Vancouver, Canada.Max Ward is an associate professor of Japanese history at Middlebury College. He is the author of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (2019) and coeditor of Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920–1960 (2022) and Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (2017). He is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled Police Power in Modern Japan, 1870–1970.