Tamara Jacka is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. A feminist social anthropologist, her main research interests are in gender, rural–urban migration and social change in contemporary China. She is the author of Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), which won the Francis L.K. Hsu prize for best book in East Asian Anthropology. More recent publications include Women, Gender and Rural Development in China (Edward Elgar, 2011, co‑edited with Sally Sargeson) and Contemporary China: Society and Social Change (Cambridge University Press, 2013, co-authored with Andrew B. Kipnis and Sally Sargeson).