Maurice Meisner is the Harvey Goldberg Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. His writings, which have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, include "Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism; Marxism, Maoism and Utopianism;" and many other works on modern Chinese history.