Andrew B. Kipnis is the author of more than forty articles and three books on Chinese society Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics and Schooling in China (University of Chicago Press, 2011), China and Postsocialist Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society after Communism (Eastbridge, 2008) and Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self and Subculture in a North China Village (Duke University Press, 1997). He is also co-editor of The China Journal and a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, the Australian Anthropological Society, The Association for Asian Studies and the Chine...