Anand A. Yang is professor of international studies and history at the University of Washington. He is the author of Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar (University of California Press, 1998); translator and editor of Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World (Oxford University Press); and coeditor of Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (University of Hawai'i Press, 2005).