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Ashwin Desai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. His previous books include South Africa: Still Revolting, ‘We are the Poors’: Community Struggles in Post-Apart
Wang Chaohua is a researcher who has a doctorate in modern Chinese literature and culture from the University of California, Los Angeles. She writes regularly on Chinese politics and has edited a c
Sunetra Gupta is Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University. She is the author of four novels: the first, Memories of Rain (1992), won the Sahitya Akademi Prize in 1997. The others
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