Liu Xin is a professor of sociocultural anthropology in University of California at Berkeley. His English works include The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World (New York and London: Berghahn, 2009), New Reflections on Anthropological Studies of greater China (the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2004), The Otherness of Self: A Genealogy of the Self in Contemporary China (University of Michigan Press, 2002), In One’s Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-Reform Rural China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).