Wen-hsin Yeh is Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Professor in History at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She is author of "The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China" and "Provinical Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism "(UC Press) and editor of "Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond, 1900 1950 "(UC Press).