Judith B. Farquhar is Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty at Chicago in 2004, Professor Farquhar held teaching and research positions in several universities and research units in the United States, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and McGill University. She does research focusing on traditional medicine, popular culture, and everyday life in contemporary China. Her anthropological areas of interest include medical anthropology; the anthropology of knowledge and of embodiment; critical theory and cultural studies; and theories of reading, writing, and translation. She is the author/editor of publications including Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China  (2002), 《饕餮之欲――當代中國的食與色》(2007, Chinese translation of Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China), Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (co-edited with Margaret Lock, 2007), and Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing (co-authored with Zhang Qicheng, forthcoming in 2012).