Jonathan Bach is a Professor in the Global Studies Program and faculty affiliate in the Anthropology Department at The New School in New York. His recent work explores social change through the politics of memory, material culture, and urban space in Germany and China. He is the author of What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (2017) and co-editor with Michal Murawski of Re-Centering the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity (2020) and with Mary Ann O’Donnell and Winnie Wong of Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (2017).