Thomas Bernstein
Thomas Bernstein joined the faculty of Columbia University in l975, having previously taught at Yale and Indiana Universities. He is a member of the executive committee of the East Asian Institute and a specialist on comparative politics, with a focus on China as well as on communist systems generally. Comparative studies include analysis of the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union and China and of the two famines that each country experienced in the l930s and late l950s. Work on China includes a book on Chinese youth (1977) as well as book chapters on the Mao era, on growth without liberalization, democratization, and on education. Most of his recent writings have focused on various aspects of state-peasant relations in China’s reform period. Together with Professor Xiaobo Lu, he co-authored Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China (2003). He also wrote a case study for the PEW Initiative in Diplomatic Training, “The Negotiations to Normalize US-China Relations” (1988). He serves on the Editorial Committee of Comparative Politics, and on the Editorial Boards of China Quarterly (UK) and China: An International Journal (Singapore). He served as Chair of the Department of Political Science from l986-l989 and again from l991 to l994.

JaeHo Chung
Jae Ho Chung is Professor and former Chair of International Relations at Seoul National University. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Central Control and Local Discretion in China (2000), Charting China’s Future (2006), and Between Ally and Partner: Korea-China Relations and the United States (2007). Professor Chung serves on the editorial committees of China Quarterly, East Asia, Politics, and China Perspectives

Parks Coble
Parks M. Coble is the James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. His current research focuses on the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 and on the business history of Republican China. Recent publications include Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 (California, 2003); Zouxiang “zuihou guantou”: Zhongguo minzu guojia goujian zhong de Riben yinsu, 1931-1937, translated by Ma Junya (Shehui kexue wenxian chuban she, 2004), an authorized translation of Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937 (Harvard Monographs, 1991), and “The National Salvation Movement and Social Networks in Republican Shanghai,” in Nora Dillon and Jean C. Oi, eds., At the Crossroads of Empires (Stanford, 2008).

Nara Dillon
Nara Dillon is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College. She is a specialist in East Asian and comparative politics, public administration and policy and coauthor of articles in Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities, and Public Management Reform and Innovation: Research, Theory, and Application. She received her B.A. from Williams College and M.A. and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University from 2001–2002.

Martin Dimitrov
Martin Dimitrov is an Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard. He has a forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press entitled Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property in China. Currently he is working on a second book project, which examines why Communist regimes collapsed in Eastern Europe but survived in Asia and Latin America. At Dartmouth, he teaches courses on Chinese politics, Russian politics, comparative politics, and on authoritarianism and revolutions. He received his PhD from Stanford University.

Jorge Dominguez
Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Senior Advisor for International Studies to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He is the author or co-author of various books, articles, and working papers, among them China’s Relations with Latin America: Shared Gains, Asymmetric Hopes (Working Paper); Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia, Latin America, and the “New” Pax Americana; The Construction of Democracy: Lessons from Practice and Research; Cuba hoy: Analizando su pasado, imaginando su futuro; Mexico’s Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000; The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century; Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America; The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict; Democratic Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean; International Security and Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era; Technopols: Freeing Politics and Markets in Latin America in the 1990s; Democratic Transitions in Central America; Democratizing Mexico: Public Opinion and Electoral Choices; Democracy in the Caribbean; To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba's Foreign Policy; Economic Issues and Political Conflict: U.S.-Latin American Relations; Insurrection or Loyalty: The Breakdown of the Spanish American Empire; and Cuba: Order and Revolution. A past President of the Latin American Studies Association and a past Board Chairman of the Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities, he currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Political Science Quarterly, Latin American Research Review, Foreign Affairs en español, Cuban Studies, Foro internacional, and Istor, and is a Contributing Editor to Foreign Policy. He was Series Editor for the Peabody Award-winning Public Broadcasting System television series, Crisis in Central America.

Joseph Fewsmith
Joseph Fewsmith is Director of the East Asian Studies Program and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. He specializes in Comparative Politics and Chinese Domestic and International Politics. Professor Fewsmith is the author of four books: China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (2001), Elite Politics in Contemporary China (2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (1994), and Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1980-1930 (1985). He is very active in the China field, traveling to China frequently and presenting papers at professional conferences such as the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in such journals as Asian Survey, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, and Modern China. He is also a research associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University. He holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.

Steven Goldstein
Since 1968 Steven Goldstein has been a member of the Government Department at Smith College. In 1998 he was named the Sophia Smith Professor of Government. Goldstein is the Director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University and has been a visiting faculty member at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Columbia University. From 1983 to 1984 he was the Director of the China Council of the Asia Society in New York. He serves on the editorial boards of The China Quarterly, The American Asian Review and The Journal of Contemporary China. His research interest has been largely related to issues of Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Goldstein has published studies of Sino-American relations; Sino-Soviet relations; the emergence of a Chinese Communist view of world affairs and the reform process in post-Mao China. His current research focus is on the relations between the mainland and Taiwan as well as the evolution of U.S.-Taiwan relations. He has written, co-authored or edited nine books as well as many scholarly articles and book reviews. In 1989, he served as a CNN commentator in Beijing during the visit of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Tiananmen demonstrations. Goldstein was a writer and on-screen commentator for the PBS series "The Chinese." He holds a Ph.D from Columbia University.

Henrietta Harrison
Henrietta Harrison is Professor of History at Harvard University. Her research has concentrated on the social and cultural history of modern China. Her first book The Making of the Republican Citizen (Oxford, 2000) was on large national themes, looking at the spread of modern social and ritual practices among the Chinese modernising elite in the early 20th century. But for the past ten years she has worked mainly on the history of the poor, inland province of Shanxi looking at it first through the eyes of a traditional Confucian scholar living out his life in a rapidly modernising world and now through the history of a small group of villages that were founded by Chinese Catholics in the late 17th century and are still Catholic today. Before teaching at Harvard she taught in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds on a wide range of topics related to modern and contemporary China. She received her PhD from Oxford University.

Sebastian Heilmann 
Sebastian Heilmann is Professor for Comparative Government/Political Economy of China at Trier University, Germany. The Current foci of his research is Economic Policy-Making and Regulation in China and Policy experimentation with a comparative perspective. Recent Publications relevant to the Adaptive Authoritarianism conference are "Experimentation under Hierarchy: Policy Experiments in the Reorganization of China’s State Sector, 1978-2008”, CID Working Paper, No.172 (Center for International Development, Harvard University), June 2008. “Policy Experimentation in China’s Economic Rise”, Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol.43, No.1, March 2008, 1-26.

William Hsaio
William Hsiao is the K.T. Li Professor of Economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard University. Dr. Hsiao's health policy research program spans across developed and less developed nations. He and his research team focus their economic studies on five topics: a simulation model of the US health sector; payment systems for physicians and hospitals; comparative health care systems; financing health care in developing nations; and, interaction between economic development and health care. Comparing health systems across industrialized nations, Hsiao applies political and economic theories to develop a structural framework of essential elements of health systems. His team uses econometric models to test various hypotheses and to estimate the extent to which each structural element influences health expenditures and health status. Employing his systemic framework, he is assisting Taiwan, Cyprus, Mexico, Colombia, China, and Sweden in their health systems reforms. In developing nations, Hsiao's research focuses on the development of sustainable financing mechanisms to provide health care for the poor, rural population, and urban workers. With UNICEF's support, he collaborates with seven universities in China to conduct a nationwide study on health care financing and provision for 100 million poor Chinese. Meanwhile, with the support of The World Bank, he is launching a large scale social experiment on community financing for the rural Chinese population, involving 100 communities and two million people.

Yu Jianrong
Dr. Yu Jianrong currently serves as professor and director of the Rural Development Institute’s Social Issues Research Center at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences in Beijing. He was recently a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

William Kirby
William C. Kirby is the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund. A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby’s work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He has written on the evolution of modern Chinese business (state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; the history of freedom in China; China’s environmental challenges; relations across the Taiwan Strait; and China’s relations with Europe and America. His current projects include case studies of contemporary Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China and the United States. He is Honorary Visiting Professor at Peking University, Nanjing University, Chongqing University, and Fudan University.

Yang Kuisong
Yang Kuison is Professor at the East China Normal University. Publications include: Zhongjian didai de gemin Zhonghuo geming de celue zai guoji beijing xiade yanbian/Revolution in the Intermediate Zone – The International Circumstances and the Historical Evolution of Strategy of Chinese Revolution (1993)；Makesi zhuyi zhongguohua de lishi jincheng/The Historical Process of Marxism’s Sinicization (1994)；Xian shibian xintan – zhang xueliang yu zhonggong guanxi zhi yanjiu/New Study on Xian’s Incident - Studies of Relations between Zhang Xueliang and CCP (1995 and 2006); Mao zedong yu mosike de enen yuanyuan/Cooperative and Clash between Mao Zedong and Moscow (1999 and 2000); and “An Initial Attempt to Consolidate the Urban Regime in New China-A Historical Case Survey of the ‘Suppressing Counter-revolutionaries’” Movement in Shanghai, Journal of East China Normal University, 2004 No.5.

Steve Levitsky
Steven Levitsky (Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His areas of research include political parties and party change, informal institutions and organizations, and political regimes and regime change. His primary regional interest is Latin America, with a particular focus on Argentina and Peru. He is author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He is currently writing a book on the rise of competitive authoritarian regimes in Latin America, Africa, Asia, East-Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union during the post-Cold War era. He is also co-editing a book (with Gretchen Helmke) on informal institutions in Latin America. Professor Levitsky's courses include Introduction to Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics of Latin America, and Democracy and Authoritarianism in Latin America.

Benjamin Liebman
Benjamin Liebman is Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. His current research focuses on the role of the media in the Chinese legal system, on Chinese tort law, and on the evolution of China 's courts and legal profession. Professor Liebman's publications include Chinese Network Justice, Chicago Journal of International Law (with Tim Wu) (2007); China's Courts: Restricted Reform?, China Quarterly (2007); Evolution through Intimidation? An Empirical Account of Defamation Litigation in China , Harvard International Law Journal (2006); Watchdog or Demagogue? The Media in the Chinese Legal System , Columbia Law Review (2005); Clean Air, Clear Process? The Struggle over Air Pollution Law in the People's Republic of China (with William P. Alford) Hastings Law Journal (2001); Legal Aid and Public Interest Law in China , Texas International Law Journal (1999); Autonomy through Separation? Environmental Law and the Basic Law of Hong Kong , Harvard International Law Journal (1998); and Class Action Litigation in China , Harvard Law Review (1998). Prior to joining the Columbia faculty in 2002, Professor Liebman was an associate in the London and Beijing offices of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also previously served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter and to Judge Sandra Lynch of the First Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale, Oxford , and Harvard Law School.

Roderick MacFarquhar
Roderick MacFarquhar is the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and formerly Director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. His publications include The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals, The Sino-Soviet Dispute, China under Mao; Sino-American Relations, 1949-1971; The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao; the final two volumes of the Cambridge History of China (edited with the late John Fairbank); The Politics of China 2nd Ed: The Eras of Mao and Deng; and a trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. He was the founding editor of “The China Quarterly”, and has been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. In previous personae, he has been a journalist, a TV commentator, and a Member of Parliament. His most recent, jointly-authored book on the Cultural Revolution entitled Mao's Last Revolution was published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2006.

Andrew Mertha
Andrew Mertha will be joining the faculty at Cornell in July, 2008. His main area of interest is Chinese politics, with a focus is on the policy making and implementation process. Andrew Mertha has written two books. The first, The Politics of Piracy (Cornell University Press, 2005), is a study on why some types of intellectual property are better enforced than others in China. The second book, China's Water Warriors (Cornell University Press, 2008), looks at how the policy making process in China has become increasingly pluralized over the past decade, as NGOs, the media, and other hitherto peripheral actors now have a seat at the policy making table. He has also written several chapters in edited volumes and have articles appearing in The China Quarterly, Comparative Politics, and International Organization. His current project is a comparison of political campaigns during the Mao era (1949-1976) and the reform period (1978-Present). Andrew lived in China for seven years, as an English teacher (1988-1989), a production manager for a toy company (1991-1994, 1995, 1996), and as a scholar (1998-1999, 2001-Present). Field sites (so far) include Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangdong, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2001.

Barry Naughton
Barry Naughton is Professor of Chinese Economy and Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California at San Diego. Naughton is an authority on the Chinese economy, with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance, and China's transition to a market economy. Recent research focuses on regional economic growth in the People's Republic of China and the relationship between foreign trade and investment and regional growth. He is also completing a general textbook on the Chinese economy. Recently completed projects have focused on Chinese trade and technology, in particular, the relationship between the development of the electronics industry in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the growth of trade and investment among those economies. His book, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993, which was published in 1995, is a comprehensive study of China's development from a planned to a market economy that traces the distinctive strategy of transition followed by China, as well as China's superior growth performance. It received the Ohira Memorial Prize in 1996. Naughton is the author of numerous articles on the Chinese economy and is editor or co-editor of three other books: Reforming Asian Socialism: The Growth of Market Institutions, Urban Spaces in Contemporary China, and The China Circle: Economics and Technology in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Naughton joined IR/PS in 1988 and was named to the Sokwanlok Chair in Chinese International Affairs in 1998.

Elizabeth Perry
Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government. She is a comparativist with special expertise in the politics of China. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, she sits on the editorial boards of nearly a dozen major scholarly journals and is the current President of the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Perry's research focuses on popular protest and grassroots politics in modern and contemporary China. Her books include Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 (1980); Chinese Perspectives on the Nien Rebellion (1981); The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Mao China (1985); Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (1992); Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Chinese Cities (1995); Putting Class in Its Place: Worker Identities in East Asia (1996); Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (1997); Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective (1997); Chinese Society: Change, Conflict, and Resistance (2000); Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China (2002); Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China (2002); Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State (2006); and Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (2007). Her book, Shanghai on Strike: the Politics of Chinese Labor (1993) won the John King Fairbank prize from the American Historical Association.

Lawrence C. Reardon
Chris Reardon is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire, specializing in China and East Asian politics. After completing his undergraduate degree in international affairs at Johns Hopkins, Reardon attended the prestigious Chinese Language School at Middlebury College and The Stanford Program in Taiwan, where he had intensive training in written and spoken Chinese. He went on to earn his master’s and Ph.D. at Columbia University. In addition to serving as an associate professor of political science and coordinating the Asian Studies minor at UNH, he is a research associate at the John K. Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. Reardon is the author of "The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy".

Elizabeth Remick
Elizabeth J. Remick is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. She teaches courses on Chinese Politics, political corruption, and gender, work and politics in East Asia. Her book Building Local States: China During the Republican and Post-Mao Eras was published in 2004 by the Harvard University Asia Center Press. Her current project examines a historical issue from Republican China (1911-1949): how the system of prostitution affected the construction of local state institutions in different parts of the country. Before teaching at Tufts, she taught at the University of Oregon, and also taught English at the Xiangtan Mining Institute in Xiangtan, Hunan, China. She received a China Research Award from the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council in 2002, and held a post-doctoral fellowship from the Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research in 2000. In 2000, she received the Tufts University Undergraduate Initiative in Teaching (UNITE) Award for Junior faculty. Professor Remick holds a BA in Political Science and Chinese Language from Wellesley College, and an MA and a PhD in Government from Cornell University.

Anthony Saich
Tony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is Faculty Chair of the Asia Programs and the China Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. This work includes significant training programs for national and local officials from China, including a program to help Beijing officials prepare for the Olympics. He also sits on the Executive Committees of the Fairbank Center and the University’s Asia Center. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the Representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this he was the director of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He first visited China as a student in 1976-77 and has been there for longer or shorter trips almost each year since. Currently, he is also a guest Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He has advised a wide range of government, private and not-for-profit organizations on work in China and elsewhere in Asia. He is a member of the Trustees of the China Medical Board of New York and International Bridges to Justice. His current research focuses on the interplay between state and society in China and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level. He has written several books on developments in China, including: Chinas Science Policy in the 80s (1989); Revolutionary Discourse in Maos China (1994, with David E. Apter); The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996); The Governance and Politics of China (2004); Providing Public Goods in Transitional China (forthcoming). He has just edited a book on the urbanization of China (2008, with Shahid Yusuf). He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught at universities in England, Holland, and the U.S.

Edward Steinfeld
Edward Steinfeld is associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the director of the MIT-China Program, and the co-director (with Professor Richard Lester) of the China Energy Group at the MIT Industrial Performance Center. Steinfeld, a specialist on Chinese economic reform and industrial competitiveness, focuses broadly on the political economy of development and industrialization. His current research focusing primarily on China’s energy sector, examines the institutional and political context for infrastructure decision making and energy-related innovation in the People’s Republic. Preliminary results have recently been published in the MIT study The Future of Coal: Options for a Carbon-Constrained World, as well as in the Harvard Asia Pacific Review (Winter 2007). Results were also presented in testimony to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in March, 2007. Steinfeld’s previous projects have examined a number of issues surrounding China’s economic emergence. During the 1990s, Steinfeld’s research focused primarily on the process of market transition for Chinese state-owned industry. This work resulted in the 1998 book Forging Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry. Subsequent work on Chinese enterprise competitiveness has been published as a series of journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, including “China’s Shallow Integration: Networked Production and the New Challenges for Late Industrialization,” World Development 32(11), 2004: 1971-1987. Additional research on Chinese enterprise-bank relationships appeared in Comparative Politics and the volume Financial Sector Reform in China (2005), co-edited with Tony Saich and Yasheng Huang. In addition to his academic work, Steinfeld has served as a consultant to The World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and The United States Department of Treasury. From 2001 through the present, Steinfeld has served on the International Advisory Board of the China National Offshore Oil Company. He received his B.A and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.

Lily Tsai
Lily L. Tsai is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. Her research focuses on issues of accountability, governance, and state-society relations. Her first book, Accountability Without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China (2007), uses a combination of original survey data and in-depth case studies to examine the ways in which informal institutions provided by social groups can substitute for formal and bureaucratic institutions to hold local officials accountable for governmental performance and public goods provision. Tsai has also published articles in The American Political Science Review and The China Journal. She is currently working on a new project about taxation, representation, and state capacity in rural China. Tsai is a graduate of Stanford University, where she graduated with honors and distinction in English literature and international relations. She received a M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 2004. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright program and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Ezra Vogel
Ezra F. Vogel is a student of both modern Japan and China. He received his B.A. at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1950 and his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard in 1958. He then spent two years in Japan conducting research. In 1960-61, he was assistant professor at Yale University and from 1961-62 through 1963-64 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, studying Chinese language and history. He remained at Harvard, becoming lecturer in 1964 and professor in 1967. Professor Vogel succeeded John Fairbank as second Director (1972-1977) of Harvard's East Asian Research Center and second Chairman of the Council for East Asian Studies (1977-1980). He was Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Center for International Affairs (1980-1987) and, since 1987, Honorary Director. He was director of the Undergraduate Concentration in East Asian Studies from its inception in 1972 until 1989. In 1993 he took a two-year leave of absence, serving as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council. He returned to Harvard in September 1995 to direct the Fairbank Center until 1999 and was head of the Asia Center from 1997 to 1999. He taught courses on communist Chinese society, Japanese society, and industrial East Asia. The Japanese edition of Professor Vogel's book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (1979) remains the all-time best-seller in Japan of non-fiction by a Western author. He officially retired in 2000 but remains active in research and East Asia related activities.

Shaoguang Wang
Shaoguang Wang is Professor of Political Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the chief editor of the China Review, an interdisciplinary journal on greater China. He studied for his LL.B. at Peking University and his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He taught at Tijiao High School in Wuhan from 1972-1977 and Yale University from 1990 to 2000. He has authored, co-authored, and edited twenty books in Chinese and English. In addition, he has contributed to numerous edited volumes and journals. His research interests include political economy, comparative politics, fiscal politics, democratization, and economic and political development in former socialist countries and East Asian countries. Dr. Wang has also been named a Changjiang Professor at the Tsinghua School of Public Policy and Management.

Robert Weller
Robert Weller is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. Professor Weller taught at Duke before coming to Boston, where he is a Professor of Anthropology as well as a member of Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs. His most recent book is Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. Other books include Civil Life, Globalization, and Political Change in Asia: Organizing Between Family and State, Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy, Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion and Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen. He has also co-edited Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe and Latin America and Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Professor Weller's present research is concerned with the development of the environmental movement and nature tourism in China and Taiwan in the context of economic growth. He is also looking at the role of local voluntary organizations as mediators between state and society in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, and he has consulted on poverty and unemployment relief in western China. Robert Weller earned his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1980 for work on the role of religious variation in Taiwan's changing economy and society.

Martin Whyte
Martin Whyte is professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His primary research and teaching specialties are comparative sociology, sociology of the family, sociology of development, the sociological study of contemporary China, and the study of post-communist transitions. His most recent writings reflect these divergent interests: an edited volume entitled Marriage in America: A Communitarian Perspective (2000) and an edited collection of papers drawing on a survey project that focused on relations between aging parents and their grown children in urban Chinese families, entitled China's Revolutions and Inter-Generational Relations (2003). One newer research project involves surveys on Chinese popular perceptions of inequality trends and views about distributive justice issues. A pilot survey for this project was successfully conducted in Beijing in December 2000. A national survey focusing on inequality and distributive justice issues was completed in the summer of 2004

Jishun Zhang
East China Normal University

Yuezhi Zhao
Yuezhi Zhao is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from Simon Fraser University and taught at the University of California, San Diego between 1997 and 2000. She is the author of Communication in China: Political Economy, Power and Conflict (2008); Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line (1998), co-author of Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity (1998), and co-editor of Democratizing Global Media? One World, Many Struggles (2005) and Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy (2008).