Rebecca E. Karl teaches History at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief History (Verso, 2020), and The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China (Duke University Press, 2017). She is also the author of Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History (Duke University Press, 2010). Karl is co-editor and co-translator (with Lydia Liu and Dorothy Ko) of The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (Columbia University Press, 2013). She is a Founding Editor of Positions Politics, and of the Critical China Scholars collective.
A PEN American Center report found some books were expurgated by Chinese censors without the authors knowledge.