Contributors -- Summer Issue '03

Zbigniew Brzezinski was the national security adviser to President Carter and member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; counselor-in-residence at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; trustee of the Trilateral Commission; 1981 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; former faculty member at Columbia and Harvard universities, and current professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Lim Tai Wei is a contributor at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) (www.siiaonline.org), Cornell PhD Student, and SAGE scholar.

Jaushieh Joseph Wu is the Deeputy Secretary-General to the President of Taiwan, Republic of China.

Philip Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science of the National Taiwan University. He has published extensively in Chinese, English and Japanese on topics such as Taiwan and Asia-Pacific security issues. Dr. Yang is also the founder and administrator of the Taiwan Security Research website, www.taiwansecurity.org

Ralph A. Cossa is president of the Pacific Forum CSIS, a Honolulu-based non-profit research institute affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and senior editor of Comparative Connections, a quarterly electronic journal http://www.csis.org/pacfor/

Satu P. Limaye is the Director of Research at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu, HI. APCSS is a U.S. Department of Defense organization aimed at increasing cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Yao Chao Cheng is a Professor in Economics, Academic Dean, and Faculty of International Trade at Shanxi University of Finance & Economics, China

Shing-Tung Yau is William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, and Fields Medalist in 1982

Robert Sutter is a Professor of Asian Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Steven S. Park received his B.A. in political science from California State University, Fullerton, and his Master of Public Administration from University of Alaska, Anchorage. As a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer, he has traveled extensively through South Korea, Japan, Northeast China, and the Russian Far East.  Recently, he participated in a North Korea scenarios workshop hosted by Nautilus Institute.  His current research is on the impact of South Korean Army’s force modernization programs on the stability of Northeast Asia.

Kong Jie Sheng was an East Asian Studies visiting scholar at Princeton University. He has published numerous novels and essays in China in the 1980’s. His work has been translated and published in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Japanese. He was also Editor-in-Chief of China Monthly http://www.chinamz.org/

Wu Jiaxiang is a Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University

Ehito Kimura is a research associate at Focus on the Global South based at Chulalongkorn University.

Joyce Zhang is the Editor, Reporter, as well as the Director of International Desk at the Beijing Youth News. She was the Deputy Editor at Large at the ToneRenTang Magazine of the TongRenTang Medicine Group. She received her MPA at the College of Public Administration, Antwerp University at Belgium.

Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson received his PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1992. He is the first anthropologist to conduct field work among the Uyghurs of Xinjiang and the author of Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China’s Silk Road, Columbia University Press, 1997. He is currently Program Director for the National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages and is working on a book, Foreign Language Boot Camp, that teaches an accelerated method for becoming conversant in any foreign language. This fall he teach Mandarin Chinese at Suffield Academy in Connecticut.

Hu Junchen is a Professor of Enterprise Management at Fudan University and Director of the Business Human Resources Management Institute at Fudan University.

Ting Ding Hooi is a faculty member in the School of Economics at Universiti Utara Malaysia.

Qiaojia Luo is a Professor at Wuhan University in China.

Tsering Namgyal is a Tibetan journalist based in Taipei and Dharamsala, India. He is currently working on a book on the Tibetan Diaspora.

Xuefeng Chen is the Deputy Director of the Chinese Children’s Center in Beijing, China. She received her Ph.D. from the Beijing Normal University.

Shalendra D. Sharma is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco.

M. S. Swaminathan has been acclaimed by TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and has been described by the United Nations Environment Program as “the Father of Economic Ecology.” He is presently the Chairman of the Pugwash Conference, an organization founded by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell to work on issues of nuclear disarmament

Jennie Alice Johnson, staff writer, is in her third year studying East Asian Studies at Harvard University.

Jing Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at University of Maryland. She is the author of four books, The Red Guards Path to Violence (1991), Education in Post-Mao China (1993), The Opening of the Chinese Mind (1994), and Social Transformation and Private Education in China (1999). Her fifth book: School for Love: Education in the 21st century, is in writing.

Thomas J. Campanella is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.