Kate Merkel-Hess
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Kate Merkel-Hess
is an ACLS/Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of California - Irvine,
the editor of "The China Beat" blog/electronic magazine, and a co-editor of China in 2008: A
Year of Great Significance.
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Jeffrey
N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at University of California - Irvine and the author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, which will be published in April.
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