Lisa M. Hoffman is professor of urban studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma and author of Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent and coeditor of Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday. Mary L. Hanneman is associate professor of Asian studies and history at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and author of Japan Faces the World, 1925-1952 and Hasegawa Nyozekan and Liberalism in Modern Japan.