William Hinton (1919–2004) was a farmer in Vermont and a legendary figure in the U.S. Left. He wrote many books on post-revolutionary China, including Through a Glass Darkly, Iron Oxen, The Great Reversal, Hundred Day War, Shenfan, and Turning Point in China.
More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform a...
Saidiya Hartman has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and is now a professor at Columbia University. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection and Lose Your Mother. She lives in Ne
Born and raised in Kolkata, Amrita Nilanjana obtained a Master’s degree and an MPhil in English Literature from Calcutta University. After migrating to Delhi, she taught English Literature as a visi
Vina Mazumdar (28 March 1927 - 30 May 2013) studied at Calcutta University and at Oxford University. She taught Political Science at the University of Patna and Berhampur University, and had been a
