Jane M. Gaines, is Professor of Film, Columbia University, New York, and Professor Emerita of Literature and English, Duke University, North Carolina, USA. She holds the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Award and an honorary doctorate (Stockholm University). Her books include Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era, Pink- Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

Kristine Harris is Professor of History at the State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. Her writing has appeared in the Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas; the Harvard New Literary History of Modern China; Les Sons de l'exotisme au cinéma: Bruits, voix, musiques; History in Images: Pictures and Public Space in Modern China; The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870's through the 1960's, among others.