Guo Jian is a professor of English and Chinese at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He has a bachelor of arts in Chinese from Beijing Normal University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He has published internationally in Chinese and in English on classical Chinese literature, the Cultural Revolution, and Western critical theory. He also served as a co-editor of The Cultural Revolution Database (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002).
Yongyi Song is on the library faculty at California State University, Los Angeles. He has an master of arts in China Studies from the University of Colorado and a master of library science from Indiana University at Bloomington. He is the author of The Cultural Revolution: A Bibliography, 1966—1996 (Harvard, 1998) and The Cultural Revolution & Heterodox Thoughts I & II (M.E. Sharpe, 2001). He was chief editor of The Cultural Revolution Database (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002). He is the recipient the “21st Century Librarian National Award” (School of Information Studies, Syracuse University) in 2004 and the “Paul Howard Award for Courage” (American Library Association) in 2005.
Yuan Zhou is the Curator of the East Asian Library of the University of Chicago. He has a bachelor of arts from Peking University, China, and a master of science as well as a Ph.D. in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the compiler and editor of A New Collection of Red Guard Publications: Part I (1999), a 20-volume set of reprinted Red Guard newspapers published during the Cultural Revolution. He was also a co-compiler and co-editor of Chinese Cultural Revolution Database (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002), responsible for Part II: Mao Zedong’s speeches, writings, and directives during the Cultural Revolution. In addition, he published articles on various topics in library and information science, including collection development, applications of information technology, library history, and the development of East Asian libraries.