Zhilin Liu Editor

Lisa M. Hoffman is Professor in the School of Urban Studies at University of Washington Tacoma and faculty in China Studies at UW.  Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she describes her interdisciplinary work as anthropology of the urban. Her scholarship has focused on questions of power, governing and social change, with a particular interest in subjectivity and its intersections with spatiality.  Research projects include studies of professionals/ism and volunteers/ism in urban China, anthropology of neoliberalism, and regimes of green urbanisms and rural urbanization in China.  Her work has been published in journals such as Economy and Society; Territory, Politics, Governance; IJURR, Pacific Affairs, and Hau. Book publications include Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China (2010, Temple UP), Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday (2015, UGeorgia Press, co-edited with Heather Merrill), and Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma (2020, UW Press, co-authored with Mary Hanneman). Jennifer Hubbert is Professor of Anthropology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She received her BA and MA from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from Cornell University. She is the author of China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization (Hawaii, 2019). Her research on public culture, nationalism, the nation-state, public diplomacy, and global relations in China has been published in American Ethnologist, The Asia Pacific Journal, Visual Anthropology, PoLAR, Modern China, positions, and City & Society, among others. Hubbert’s recent research, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the cultural worlds of liberal gun owners and has been published in Social Science Quarterly. Zhilin Liu is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. Her research interests include urban planning and governance, housing policy, rural-to-urban migration, and sustainable urbanization. She has published widely in English and Chinese peer-reviewed journals. She currently serves as a co-editor of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, is Chair of the board of directors for the International Association for China Planning, and Vice Chair of the Asian-Pacific Network for Housing Research, and a board member for various journals or academic associations including the Urban China Research Network and the Behavioral Geography Committee of China Geographical Society. She received her bachelor and master degrees in urban geography from Peking University and PhD in city and regional planning from Cornell University.