Gail Hershatter is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of "The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949" (1986), coauthor of "Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s" (1988), and co-editor of "Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State" (1994).