Emily Honig Author & Editor

Emily Honig is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written extensively on issues of gender and sexuality during the Cultural Revolution. Her books include Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919–1949 (1986) and Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850–1980 (1992). Xiaojian Zhao is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family and Community, 1940–1965 (2002), which was awarded the History Book Award by the Association for Asian American Studies. More recently, she authored The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy (2010).