<h4>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> </h4>

Tong Lam

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<h4>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.</h4>

Dora Zhang

The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes’s Travels in China

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Jeffrey Wasserstrom&nbsp;is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent book is&nbsp;Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink&nbsp;(Columbia Global Reports, 2020). He is also the author of books such as&nbsp;Eight Juxtapositions: China Through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin, 2016), co-author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2018, third edition), and the editor or co-editor of several titles. He is the advising editor on China for&nbsp;LARB,&nbsp;a member of the editorial board of&nbsp;Dissent Magazine,&nbsp;and a co-founder of UCI’s Forum for the Academy and Public Life.&nbsp;He&nbsp;has written reviews and commentaries for newspapers such as the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times&nbsp;and&nbsp;The&nbsp;New York Times, as well as for a wide range of magazines, journals of opinion, and literary reviews, including&nbsp;TLS&nbsp;and&nbsp;The&nbsp;Atlantic.&nbsp;He is an adviser to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival and has been a featured speaker at&nbsp;Internazionale’s&nbsp;Ferrara Festival. Find him on Twitter at&nbsp;<a href="http://jwassers/">@jwassers</a>.

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>Xujun Eberlein is the author of an award-winning story collection, Apologies Forthcoming, 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 LA Review of Books China Blog and has also written for the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time blog, The TLS, and Dissent magazine. Find out more at her website [link to <a href="http://mauracunningham.org/">mauracunningham.org</a>], and follow her on Twitter @mauracunningham.</h4>

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