<h4><strong>Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.&nbsp; His photographs are avaiable here:&nbsp; <a href="http://photography.tonglam.com/" target="_blank">http://photography.tonglam.com/.</a><br /></strong></h4>

Tong Lam

China Future

<h4><span>Dora Zhang is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She specializes in modernist fiction and philosophy, and generalizes in being interested by just about everything.</span></h4>

Dora Zhang

The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes’s Travels in China

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

Around the World

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

<h4>Jeffrey Wasserstrom&nbsp;is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent book, as coauthor, is the updated third edition of&nbsp;<i>China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know</i>&nbsp;(Oxford, 2018). He is also the author of books such as the&nbsp;<i>Eight Juxtapositions: China Through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin, 2016)</i>, and the editor or co-editor of several titles, including, most recently,&nbsp;<i>The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China</i>&nbsp;(also 2016). He is one of the co-founders of and an academic editor for&nbsp;<i>LARB's</i>&nbsp;<i>China Channel</i>, a member of the editorial board of&nbsp;<em>Dissent Magazine,&nbsp;</em>and a co-founder of UCI's Forum for the Academy and Public Life.<em>&nbsp;</em>He&nbsp;has written reviews and commentaries for newspapers such as the&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles Times&nbsp;</em>and <em>The&nbsp;New York Times</em>, as well as for a wide range of magazines, journals of opinion, and literary reviews, including&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>TLS&nbsp;</em>and <em>The&nbsp;Atlantic</em><em>.</em>&nbsp; He is an adviser to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival and has been a featured speaker at&nbsp;<i>Internazionale's</i>&nbsp;Ferrara Festival. Find him on Twitter at&nbsp;<a href="http://@jwassers">@jwassers</a>.</h4>

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

The Future is a Different Country: On William Gibson

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

<h4><b>Xujun Eberlein</b> is the author of an award-winning story collection, <i>Apologies Forthcoming</i>, and a cultural blog, <a href="http://insideoutchina.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Inside-Out China</a>.</h4>

Xujun Eberlein

The Teacher of the Future

<h4>Maura Elizabeth Cunningham is a historian and writer living in Shanghai, China. She co-edits the <em>LA Review of Books</em> China Blog and has also written for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>'s China Real Time blog, <em>The TLS</em>, and <em>Dissent</em> magazine. Find out more at her website [link to <a href="http://mauracunningham.org/">mauracunningham.org</a>], and follow her on Twitter @mauracunningham.</h4>

China Future

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