Xia ShiXia Shi (P.h.D. University of California, Irvine) is an Assistant Professor of History and holds the Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies at the New College of Florida. She has contributed to China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, ed. Kae Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Rowman & Littlefeld, 2009) and published articles in Frontiers of History in China and The China Beat Blog. Read More Read Less