Eileen Chang (1920-1995), who lived in the United States after fleeing Communist China in 1956, was a prominent fiction writer, essayist, and public intellectual. She is the author of "Romances," "The Rice-Sprout Song: A Novel of Modern China," and "The Rouge of the North,"

Andrew F. Jones is associate professor of Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age" and "Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music," and the translator of Yu Hua's "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant,"