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Gordon Bowen is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Dept. of  International Relations at Mary Baldwin College.  He has written extensively on American foreign policy and the crisis in the Middle East.

Devon Burke is an Honor’s student at Mary Baldwin College where she is majoring in Asian Studies.

Wilton Dillon is a Senior Scholar Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution.  For many years he was Director of the Office of Symposia and Seminars at the Smithsonian.

Ben Dorman conducts research on Japanese religion and the media at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya, Japan and is co-editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.  Dorman is also a teaching member of the Nanzan University faculty.

Amy Fitzgerald is a graduate student in English at Wake Forest University.  She wrote this paper while a student of Prof. Jan. Bardsley at the University of North Carolina.

Timothy Grose is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia’s program in East Asian Studies.  He writes:  “My interest in China has naturally evolved from a child who enthusiastically studied martial arts to my current research interest of China’s ethnic border regions, especially Xinjiang. Research trips to Xinjiang as an undergraduate at John Carroll University, a Fulbright scholar, and living in China for an additional year have deepened my understanding about this important region and more importantly raised questions for my future research.”        

James Holmes is a senior research associate at the University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security, Athens, GA.  Jim is the co-author of Chinese  Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan' (Routledge, 2007), and co-editor of the   book Asia Looks Seaward: Power and Maritime Strategy (Praeger Security International, 2007).

Xuexin Liu is Associate Professor of Japanese at Spelman College. She has published a comprehensive book on Studies of Classical Japanese and numerous research papers on historical Japanese linguistics, Japanese sociolinguistics, Japanese pedagogy, Japanese semantics, and Japanese social and cultural studies. She also has expertise in Japanese-English-Chinese translation and has published many translated works in Asian cultures.

Jonathan Z. Ludwig is Senior Lecturer of Russian at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he also teaches on the History and Politics of Central Asia and Afghanistan. He has presented papers on the March 2005 Kyrgyz Revolution and on Russian-American cooperation and confrontation in Central Asia as it concerns the War on Terror. He is currently researching the role of the United States in Afghanistan from the end of World War II until the 1979 Soviet invasion

Yuxim Ma is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisville.  She received her Ph.D. from University of Minnesota. She is interested in women's/gender history, and the social history of modern China and Japan. Her research examines women's subjecti-vities in the construction of feminism, modernity, and the nation-state, examining various discursive constructions and cultural expressions of gender, sex and sexuality.

Daniel A. Métraux is Professor of Asian Studies at Mary Baldwin College.  He has written extensively on Japanese and East Asian history, religion and politics.  He will serve as president of the SE Chapter, Association for Asian Studies, in 2009.

Jane Pietrowski is Associate Professor of Economics at Mary Baldwin College.  Her research interests are in the field of industrial organization and labor economics. She co-authored (with RP Wilder and HW Chappell) “R&D, Firm Size and Concentration: Evidence from the FTC Line of Business Survey.”  For eleven years (1995-2006), she served as the Vice President of Business and Finance for Mary Baldwin College

Margaret Richardson is Assistant Professor of Art History at George Mason University.  She has written and lectured extensively on contemporary Indian art.

Eric Strange is a recent graduate in History at Georgia Southern University where he studied under Professor Paul Rodell.

Kazuo Yagami is an assistant professor at Savannah State University and author of  the 2006 book, Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937–1941.

James W. Yoxall is an adjunct instructor in Asian Studies at Mary Baldwin College.  His expertise is in the area of orphans in China.   He and his wife Hilary have adopted two Chinese children.  Yoxall has taught in several schools in China since the 1990s.

Li Zeng is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, where he teaches Chinese literature, Chinese film, and East Asian cultures. He completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto, and has published books and articles on comparative Chinese literature, visual culture, and Asian American literature, among which are Tradition and Creation: Essays in Comparative Literature (Guizhou People's Press, 2005) and Studies of Asian and Asian American Literature (edited, a special issue of Language and Literature XXVIII, 2003).