The History and Logic of Modern Chinese Politics

Mingsheng Wang (Ph.D., Nanjing University) is Professor of Political Science at Nanjing University (NJU) in China. He is Member of the Advisory Committee on Senior Faculty Positions and NJU Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Research Center of Theoretical Studies of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. He has also served as Vice President of the Jiangsu Provincial Research Society of Scientific Socialism and Executive Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Research Society of Politics. In addition, he is Recipient of a Five One-Group Talent Award from Jiangsu province and a New Century Talent Award by the Chinese Ministry of Education. His research interests focus on studies of political history and development in modern China, Mao Zedong Thought, theoretical studies of Chinese socialism, and sociopolitical reforms in China in the Post-Mao era. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles in newspapers and journals such as People's Daily, Guangming Daily, and Qiushi Journal. He is Author of more than 15 books, including Political Participation in Contemporary China, History and Logic of Political Development in Contemporary China, and Designs on Economic Development by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. He has received three distinguished awards: Second Prize of Outstanding Achievement Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education, First Prize of Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences in Jiangsu province, and First Prize of Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Universities in Jiangsu province.   Xiao-huang Yin (PhD, Harvard University) is Professor of Asian/American Studies at Occidental College in the United States and Dean of the School of Foreign Studies at Northwestern Polytechnic Studies in China. He served as founding Director of the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, Fulbright Distinguished Chair Professor to China, and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor at Nanjing University. Specializing in Chinese transnationalism, modern China, and US-China relations, he is the author of Chinese American Literature since the 1850s (Illinois), co-editor of The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China Relations (Routledge), the principal translator of The China Path to Economic Transition and Development (Springer), and a contributor to New Americans: Immigration to the United States since the 1960s (Harvard), Chinese American Transnationalism (Temple), Diaspora Philanthropy and Equitable Development: Perspectives on China and India (Harvard), and American Babel: Essays on Language, Immigration and Translation (Harvard) as well as many other books and journals such as American Quarterly and Atlantic Monthly.