Felix Wemheuer received his MA in Politics of East Asia from Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. From 2000 to 2002, he studied at the Institute for CCP History at the People's University of China, Beijing. During this time, he did field studies in villages in Henan regarding the Great Leap Forward. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna in 2006. He has published two monographs in German on intellectual and peasant memory of the Great Leap Forward. His current research at Harvard is titled "The Politicization of Hunger: Discourses of Food and State-Peasant Relationships in Socialist China and the Soviet Union." In 2009, the conference volume on "New Perspectives on the Great Forward and the Famine" (together with Kimberley Manning) will be published by University Press of British Columbia. Another conference volume on "Hunger, Nutrition and Rationing under State Socialism" is forthcoming from University Press of Leipzig.