Laura Hostetler, Ph.D (1995, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). Wu Xuemei is Professor of History at the School of History and Culture of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. She has published extensively on social order and questions of state control among the Miao and Tujia in Qing Hubei.

Laura Hostetler, Ph.D (1995, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). Wu Xuemei is Professor of History at the School of History and Culture of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. She has published extensively on social order and questions of state control among the Miao and Tujia in Qing Hubei.

Laura Hostetler, Ph.D (1995, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). Wu Xuemei is Professor of History at the School of History and Culture of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. She has published extensively on social order and questions of state control among the Miao and Tujia in Qing Hubei.