Contributors -- Summer Issue '97

These are the contributors to the Summer 1997 issue of the Harvard Asia Pacific Review. Included in their descriptions are their jobs at the time of their contribution and their article that appears in this magazine.

Frank Hoffman is a Koreanist and art historian currently engaged in dissertation research on colonial Korean painting; assembling a book on contemporary Burmese avant-garde art.

Gongkai Pan is President of China's National Academy of Fine Arts.

Stephen Owen is Irving Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Chinese at Harvard University.

Jay Rubin Takashima is a Professor of Japanese Humanities at Harvard University.

Peter G. Rowe is the Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Dean of the Faulty of Design at Harvard University. He also teaches Urbanization in the Asia Pacific Region.

Mark Wu is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University; his essay was adopted from his summa cum laude thesis at Harvard University.

Ezra F. Vogel is the Henry Ford III Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

Weiming Tu is a Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy at Harvard and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute; a reflection based on the author's essay "The Humanities and Public Intellectual," included in the Presidential Commission's Report on the Humanities.

I.M. Pei is a founder of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and a recipient of Prizker Prize and Medal of Freedom .

Chu-jen Hu is a cultural worker in Hong Kong. Over the past forty years, he has edited and written numerous publications.

Jackie Chan is a film director and actor. His famous films include: Drunken Master and Rumble in the Bronx.

Joseph Lian is the Editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong Economic Journal.

Shovana Narayan is an acclaimed kathak virtuoso and has received the Indian National Padma Shree Award.

Shashi Tharoor is the author of the prize-winning book The Great Indian Novel, India: From Midnight to the Millenium and Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

R.L. Mishra is former Secretary to the Government of India for the Ministry of Health

Akio Kawato is Japanese Consul General to Boston.

IM Kwon Taek is a leading film-maker in Korea. His works include Sopynonje, Surrogate Mother, and Aje, Aje, Bara Aje!

Mong-Jong Chung is the President of the Korean Football Association and a member of the Korean National Assembly.

Timothy R. White is a Lecturer in the Deptartment of English Languages and Literature at the National University of Singapore Film.

Lily. L. L. Kong is the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore and Senior Lecturer of geography.

Ismail S. Talib is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore Southeast Asia.

Winnie Cheung is the Managing editor of Free China Review China.

Thomas Ho is a Freelance writer from HKG, now writes and teaches in NYC.

Merry I. White is a Professor of Sociology at Boston University and Associate in Research at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard Univeristy.