Xiaoshuo Hou is Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Skidmore College where she held the inaugural Frances Young Tang '61 Chair in Chinese Studies (2016-2021). She is the author of Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism (2013) and one of the co-editors of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (2020) and The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (2016).