Myth, Memory, and Rice History in Shanghai, 1949–1950

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James Z. Gao

James Z. Gao is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Changes in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age (Greenwood, 1997), The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadres, 1949–1954 (University of Hawaii Press, 2004) and several articles on modern China. His major field of interest is political and social history of Modern China. He is currently working on a book-length project on rice politics and social conflicts in Shanghai, 1900–1955.