Ching Kwan Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan; her research has focused on labor and social problems in China today. Guobin Yang is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University; his recent publications have focused on nostalgia among the Red Guard generation, China’s environmental NGOs, and the Internet and Chinese civil society. Both were Fellows at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2003-4.