Stephen R. MacKinnon is Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is author of "Power and Politics in Late Imperial China: Yuan Shi-Kai in Beijing and Tianhun, 1901-1908, " and coauthor of "China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s" and "Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical, " all published by UC Press. He is the editor, with Diana Lary and Ezra Vogel, of "China at War: Regions of China, 1937-45, " among other books.