Sang Ye divides his time between China and Brisbane, Australia. His most recent book is "The Year the Dragon Came "(1996). Geremie R. Barme is a Professor of Chinese History at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. He is the author of "An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai "(California, 2002), "In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture "(1999), and "Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader "(1996). Miriam Lang is a researcher and translator based at Monash University in Melbourne.