Hu Ping is chief editor of the New York-based monthly journal Beijing Spring, and is on the Board of Directors of the NGO Human Rights in China. He has authored over ten books, including Chine, à quand la démocratie? –les illusions de modernization (2004; translated by Marie Holzman).| Philip F. Williams is visiting professor of Asian history at Montana State University and professor emeritus of Chinese, Arizona State University.| Yenna Wu is distinguished teaching professor of Chinese at the University of California, Riverside.