Alexander Woodside Author & Editor

Arif Dirlik is Knight Professor of Social Science and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Oregon. He is recently author of Marxism in the Chinese Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) and Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). Alexander Woodside is Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, which co-sponsored publication of this book. Roxann Prazniak is Associate Professor of History at the Robert D. Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon. She is the author of Dialogues Across Civilizations: Sketches in World History from the Chinese and European Experiences and Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Qing China. Her current book-in-progress is Sudden Appearances: Artistic Departures in Mongol Eurasia.