Lim Bo Seng (Singaporean national hero) with friend, Tan Chong Te

List of Contributors

The following is a list of the scholars who have already agreed to participate in our workshops and contribute to the volume which will result from it, followed by some more scholars whom we have already agreed to approach. They have been chosen by us for their excellent and extensive work and solid reputations in the study of various parts of Asia, of Asia as a whole and of nationalism. Together they constitute a rare and formidable constellation of intellect on the subject of Asia and nationalism.

Below we also provide brief highlights of their scholarly accomplishments. Others will be added to the list as a result of our further deliberations, as necessary to achieve a list of people evenly balanced according to scholarship on various regions and themes; gender and origin.
  • Delia Aguilar, Department of Women's Studies, University
    of Connecticut

Delia Aguilar has been an associate professor of Women's Studies and Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University and Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Filipino Housewives Speak, The Feminist Challenge, and Toward a Nationalist Feminism, all of which were published in the Philippines. She has written numerous articles on Filipino women, feminist theory, and women and development that have appeared in Feminist Review, Women's Studies International Forum, Race & Class, and Monthly Review, among others. She now teaches women's studies courses at the University of Connecticut.
  • Ann Anagnost, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington

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Ann Anagnost is the author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China. Duke University Press 1998; “A Surfeit of Bodies: Population and the Rationality of State in Post-Mao China,” in Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds, Conceiving the New World Order. University of California Press, 1995; “The Politicized Body,” in Barlow and Zito, eds., Body, Subject, Power in China. University of Chicago Press, 1993; “Who is Speaking Here? Discursive Boundaries and Represetnation in Post-Mao China,” in John Hay, ed., Boundaries in Chinese Culture. London: Reaktion Press, 1994. Her areas of interest include Peasant society; mass culture; nationalism; anthropology of the body; childhood.
  • Benedict Anderson, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Dr. Anderson is currently the director of the Modern Indonesia Program and the Aaron L. Binenkorb professor of International Studies at Cornell. Anderson’s (in)famous analysis of nationalism is presented in his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983), a book that is widely studied and discussed in contemporary intellectual communities, and is as much critiqued as it is praised. Other important works include Java in a Time of Revolution (1972); Literature and Politics in Siam in the American Era (1986); Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (1990); and Spectres of Comparison (1998).
  • Mohammed Bamyeh, The Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

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Mohammed Bamyeh is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He has previously taught at SUNY-Buffalo, New York University, The University of Massachusetts and Truman College, and has been an SSRC-MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. His subsequent areas of interest have included cultural globalization, modernity and spirituality, and historical sociology, themes on which he has published widely. In addition to many scholarly articles he is the author of two books: The Ends of Globalization (Minnesota, 2000), and The Social Origins of Islam: Mind Economy, Discourse (Minnesota, 1999), which was recognized with an Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association. He is the founding editor of the journal Passages: Interdisciplinary Journal of Global Studies, the book series editor of World Heritage Studies on Multiculturalism and Transnationalism, and the co-editor of the new book series Commodities in Motion, published by Indiana University Press.
  • Joshua Barker, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto

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Joshua Barker received his B.A. from Trent University, his M.A. from SOAS (University of London), and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Barker developed a research interest in Indonesia in the early-1990s and in the last years of Suharto's rule was able to conduct a long-term ethnographic study of police practices and civilian-police relations in the city of Bandung. This research resulted in publications on the subjects of fear, state power, and surveillance in urban Indonesia. More recently, he has carried out ethnographic and historical research on media technologies and society in Indonesia. His articles on this topic have focused on the role of technological mediation in the formation of national and sub-national "imagined communities." From 1998 to 2001 Barker taught Development Studies at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia. He is now Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
  • Timothy Brook, Department of History, University of Toronto

A professor of Chinese history, Timothy Brook specializes in the social history of Ming China (1368-1644), but has research expertise in Asian historiography, religion, human rights and theories of world history. His publications include Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement (1992), Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late Ming China (1993), and The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China (1998). His current research examines Chinese collaboration during the Japanese occupation in connection with which he has edited the volume Documents on the Rape of Nanking (1999). He has also co-edited several books including Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asian (1997) with Hy Van Luong in the Department of Anthropology, and Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities (2000) with Andre Schmid in the Department of East Asian Studies.
  • Uradyn E. Bulag, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York

Uradyn Bulag is the author of Nationalism and Hybridity in Mongolia (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998) and The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield 2002). He is also co-editor of Inner Asia, and serves on the editorial boards of American Anthropologist and Critical Asian Studies. Uradyn Bulag has been conducting research in Mongolia and China since 1990. Between 1990 and 1993 he studied political culture of nationalism and hybridity in Mongolia set in the wider geopolitics of China and Russia. He later briefly worked on environmental concerns of the native American people - Haudenosaunee - for the United Nations. His current research concerns ethnic, political and economic issues in Inner Mongolia (China) in the 20th century. He is also interested in Tibetan-Mongolian relations in historical and contemporary contexts.
  • Martin Bunton, History, University of Victoria.

Martin Bunton has a Doctorate in Philosophy from Oxford University (1998), has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, and currently teaches in the departments of history at the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University. His doctoral thesis focused on the transformation of Palestinian property rights under British rule and was published by Oxford University Press. As well as writing and speaking on contemporary political issues in the Middle East, he is also active in the collaborative networks and institutions studying and debating the complex issues surrounding property rights and environmental stewardship in the Clayquot Sound. He is also co-editor with Gregory Blue and Ralph Croizier of Colonialism and the Modern World: Selected Studies (2002).
  • Timothy Cheek, History, University of British Columbia

Timothy Cheek teaches East Asian History at the University of British Columbia where he is the Louis Cha Chair of Chinese Research and the editor of Pacific Affairs. His research interests are in Modern China, particularly Chinese intellectuals and the History of the Chinese Communist Party, topics on which he is widely published.
Dr. Cheek is currently working on projects involving contemporary Chinese Intellectuals, the writings of Mao Zedong, and Chinese Historiography.
  • Georgi Derluguian,* Assistant Professor, Sociology, Northwestern University

Georgi Derluguian's areas of interest include historical sociology, nationalism, and world-systems analysis. His most recent publications include The Politics of Identity in a Russian Borderland Province: The Kuban Neo-Cossack Movement, 1989-1996 and Ukraine and the IVth Russian Empire.
  • Arif Dirlik, Department of History, University of Oregon

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His most important books include Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project (2000); The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism (1997); After the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism (1994) (also published in Korean, 1999); Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution (1991); and Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937 (1978). Among his many edited works, the following are the most relevant to the present project: Places and Politics in an Age of Global Capital (with Roxann Prazniak) (2001); History After the Three Worlds (with Vinay Bahl and Peter Gran) (2000); Postmodernism and China (with Zhang Xudong) (2000); Asia-Pacific as Space of Cultural Production (with Rob Wilson) (1995). His extensive research and teaching interests include modern China, transnational Asian studies, Pacific formations, Asian-Americans, postcolonial studies, globalization, representations of China and the question of Orientalism, globalization and culture, and places and development.
  • Andrew Harding, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria

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Andrew Harding is a Professor of Asia-Pacific Legal Relations in the UVIC Faculty of Law. Prior to this he was the head of Department and Professor of Law in the Law Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Chair of the SOAS Centre for South East Asian Studies. He has also taught in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore and served as a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School.
Dr. Harding’s teaching and research interests are in South East Asian legal studies, comparative public law, law and development, comparative law theory and environmental law. His publications include Law, Government and the Constitution in Malaysia (1996), and Comparative Law in the 21st Century (2002).
  • Mushirul Hasan, Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi

Mushirul Hasan's most important books include From John Company to the Republic (Roli: 2001 forthcoming); The Legacy of A Divided Nation: India's Muslims since Independence (London: Hurst Publishers; Delhi: Oxford University Press 1997; West View, Co., USA); and Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885-1930 (Delhi: Manohar, 1991) whose paperback edition was published in 1994, and reprinted in 2000. Among his numerous edited collections, the following are most closely related to this current project: (With Nariaka Nakazato) The Unfinished Agenda: Nation-Building in South Asia (Delhi: Manohar, 2001 Forthcoming); Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics and the Partition of India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000); Islam, Communities and the Nation: Muslim Identity Politics in South Asia and Beyond (Delhi: Manohar, 1998); India Partitioned: The Other Face of Freedom (Delhi: Roli International, 1995, in two volumes, 2nd revised and enlarged edition published in 1997); India's Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilisation (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993) whose fourth impression (paperback) was published in 1999; India and Indonesia from the 1830s to 1914: The Heyday of Colonial Rule (Comparative History of India and Indonesia), vol. 2 Mushirul Hasan, et al/published in 1988; Communal and Pan-Islamic Trends in Colonial India (Delhi: Manohar, 1985; second rev. & enlarged edition). He has also guest edited three special issues on "Muslim Identity Politics in India" of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Duke University), vol. xvi, no. 2, (1996), vol. xvii, no. 1 (1997), part 1 and vol. xvii, no. 2 (1997), part III. In addition to his scholarly work, he has been part of Indian cultural and academic delegations abroad, served on major national academic bodies including the Indian Council for Historical Research served as Vice Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, as Vice President of the Asian (UNESCO) Conference on "Management of Social Transforamation" at Bangkok, 1995. He has lectured, and held visiting Professorships in Europe and the USA. He is also an award-winning journalist and has contributed dozens of academic articles in edited collections and in academic journals.
  • Laura Hein, Department of History, Northwestern University

Laura Hein specializes in the history of Japan in the 20th century and its international relations. She has written Fueling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan (1990), and several essays on economic policy and the ideology of economic growth in Japan. She also has a strong interest in historical commemoration, resulting in two co-edited books, Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (1997), and Censoring War: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States (2000), as well as essays on other aspects of commemoration of WWII in Japan. She regularly offers a graduate seminar on Commemoration as a Historical Problem. She is a co-editor of Critical Asian Studies. Her work has been supported by Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Woodrow Wilson International Center fellowships. Her current research is on the ways in which Japanese social scientists both imagined and influenced their society.
  • Lamia Karim, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.

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Lamia Karim received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Rice University in 2001. Her dissertation, "Development and Its Discontents: NGOs, Women and the Politics of Social Mobilization in Bangladesh," received the Gardner award for Best Dissertation in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Rice University. Her innovative research has garnered several awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship for Dissertation Research, a Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation grant, and a previous Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Hawaii. She has done extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh and published articles on poverty and politics in Bangladesh.
  • Shoichi Koseki, Faculty of Law, Dokkyo University

Dr. Koseki is the author of The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution (1989), a Yoshino Sakuzo Prize-winning book that many consider to be essential reading for understanding Japan's postwar constitution, political and social history and foreign policy analyzing the dramatic events of 1945-1946 that led to the birth of Japan's new constitution. While publishing primarily in Japanese, another of his books in English is Peace and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific: A Japanese Proposal (1995).
  • Pramod Kumar, Institute for Development and Communication, Chandigarh (India)

Director, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh INDIA. He specializes in the study of the political economy of development and violence, religious and communal violence and conflict resolution. His books include Punjab Crisis : Context And Trends (1984) Victims of Militancy (2001). He is also coordinator of a number of development and governance initiatives.
  • Diana Lary, History, University of British Columbia

Diana Lary received her PhD. from the University of London and is currently a professor of History at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Lary specializes in Modern Chinese history and her current research interests include Chinese Migration (especially internal), Canada and Hong Kong connections, Chinese military, regionalism in China, and colour symbolism in Chinese culture.
Dr. Lary holds many positions in addition to her teaching appointment including: Director, Centre of Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, UBC; Co-Director, Canada & Hong Kong Project, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, Toronto; General editor, UBC Press Series on Modern China; Research Associate, David See-chai Lam Centre, Simon Fraser University; External advisor, Hong Kong Culture project, University of Hong Kong.
  • Mary Layoun, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mary Layoun's books include Travels of a Genre: the Modern Novel and Ideology (Princeton University Press, 1990) and Wedded to the Land: Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis (Duke University Press, 2001). Her areas of interest include "East"/"West" relations; "third world" literatures; cultural studies; politics and culture; the modern novel; narrative; rhetoric; nationalisms; feminisms.
  • Jayant Lele, Department of Sociology, Queen's University

Jayant Lele has served as the President of the Canadian Association of South Asian Studies and as the Secretary Treasurer of the Asian Studies Association of Canada. He was the President of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute between 1996 and 1998. Lele has been the Convenor of the Evaluation Programme of the International Centre for the Advancement of Community-based Rehabilitation - ICACBR - (a CIDA Centre of Excellence) since 1992 and served as a member of its Board of Directors, on its Taskforce on Sustainability and is its representative on the Disability Subcommittee of the United Nations Regional Interorganizational Committee for Asia Pacific (RICAP). Lele's research interests include studies of rural and national politics in India and of party politics in Canada, evaluation of public policy processes and community-based programmes, critical reinterpretation of the modernity of tradition as well as the political economy of India, Southeast Asia, and Canada.
  • Hy Van Luong, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto

Hy Van Luong received his Ph.D from Harvard University. His interests include the interplay of discourse, social structure, and political economy, and in East and Mainland Southeast Asia (especially Vietnam). His major publications include Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese System of Person Reference (1990), Revolution in the Village: Tradition and Transformation in North Vietnam, 1925-1988 (1992), Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia (co-editor with T. Brook, 1997); and Gioi, ngon tu, va nhom xa hoi tu hien thuc tieng Viet (Gender, Discourse, and Society: Vietnamese Realities; 2000) (Luong was editor and principal author).
  • Haideh Moghissi, Sociology, School of Social Sciences, York University

Haideh Moghissi specializes in religion, gender and politics in the Middle East. She is widely published and her most recent book, Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: the Limits of Post-modern Analysis (Zed Press, 1999 and Oxford University Press, 2000), was awarded the year 2000 Choice Outstanding Academic Books Award in Sociology.
She holds an appointment in the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences at the Joseph E. Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, and Faculty of Graduate Studies and is a Fellow at Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
Dr. Moghissi is the director of a SSHRC-funded Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Grant entitled “Diaspora, Islam and Gender: a Comparative Study of Four Displaced Communities from Islamic Cultures".
  • Saeed Rahnema, Political Science, Atkinson CollegeYork University

Saeed Rahnema is Professor and Coordinator of the Political Science program, Atkinson College, York University. Earlier he was Associate Professor at the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, and Canada Research Fellow at the Department of Political Studies. Before 1984, Dr. Rahnema taught, and sat on the executive, at the Industrial Management Institute in Tehran. He has also been a Senior Officer at the UNDP, a member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Economic Association (MEEA) and served as Editor of the MEEA Newsletter. The latest of his many books, in English and Persian is Re-birth of Social Democracy in Iran, (Baran Books, 1996). His research and teaching interests include public sector management, international political economy, and the politics and economics of the Middle East. He is also co-investigator of the SSHRCC MCRI research project, Diaspora, Islam and Gender, and the Co-Director of the Ford Foundation grant, Displaced Communities of Islamic Origins, at York University.
  • Epifanio San Juan, Jr., Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Storrs, CT

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Epifanio San Juan Jr. is a cultural critic and a renowned scholar in the fields of Filipino and Asian American studies. He has published widely on cultural politics in the Philippines, Marxist theory, Filipino and Filipino-American literature, and postcolonial theory. He has been a Fellow of the Center for the Humanities and Visiting Professor of English at Wesleyan University, and is currently Director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center. He was also the chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He received the 1999 Centennial Award for Literature from the Philippines Cultural Center. He is the author of Beyond Postcolonial Theory (St. Martin's Press, 2000), From Exile to Diaspora (Westview Press, 1998), and After Post-colonialism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). His book Racial Formations/ Critical Transformations (Humanities Press, 1992) received the Distinguished Book Awards from the Association for Asian American Studies and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Center, Boston University.
His latest books are: Racism and Cultural Studies (Duke University Press, 2002) and Working Through the Contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice (Bucknell University Press, 2004).

Sumit Sarkar is the most prominent historian of Modern India. His long list of writings, which began with the important Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-8 (People's Publishing House, New Delhi, 1973) include landmarks in the modern Indian history and historiography such as Modern India (Macmillan, London, 1989), Writing Social History (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1998) and most recently Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism, History. He was a founding member of the important “Subaltern Studies Group” of historians and after making significant contributions to the project, he has also produced a substantial critique of its errors and limitations. Professor Sarkar is also a publicly engaged on the Indian political scene and has produced some of the most important critiques of the Hindu Right including Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags. Finally, his authoritative edition (with Professor K.N. Pannikar) of Towards Freedom, a multi-volume collection of historical documents of India to be published by the Indian Council of Historical Research awaits the liberation of that institution from its current domination by the forces of the Hindu Right.
  • Mark Selden, Professor, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University

Mark Selden is one of the most prominent and prolific scholars in the field of Asian Studies. His works on China and Chinese socialism - China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited (1995); The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism (1988) - form the core of a rich and varied scholarship on Asia. Selden has played a major part in the publication of academic research on Asia, serving as Series Editor for the following series: Asia and the Pacific, (M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 1990-); Japan In the Modern World, (M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 1995-); Asia's Transformations, (Routledge Publishers, 1996-); Asian Voices, (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998-); World Social Change, (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999-); Transitions: Asia and Asian America, (Westview Publishers, 1992-97); and Social Change in Global Perspective, (Westview 1993-97). He is currently working on several more books: Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China (with Edward Friedman and Paul Pickowicz) (Successor volume to Chinese Village, Socialist State); The Rise of East Asia: Five Hundred, One Hundred and Fifty, and Fifty Year Perspectives (edited with Giovanni Arrighi and Takeshi Hamashita); Incomparable China: Comparative and Regional Studies among others.
  • Farzana Shaikh, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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Farzana Shaikh is a member and former Research Fellow in Politics of Clare Hall, Cambridge. From 2002 to 2003 she was Lecturer in the Government and Politics of South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and in June 2003 was invited as Guest Lecturer at the University of Basle. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and specializes in the intellectual history of South Asian Islam. She is the editor of Islam and Islamic Groups: A Worldwide Reference Guide (1992), and the author of Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in India, 1860-1947 (1989). She has also written and published scholarly articles on Muslim women in India and the intellectual trajectories of the eminent Muslim thinkers, Muhammad Iqbal and Abul Kalam Azad. Her most recent publications and research interests have tended however to centre on Pakistan, and she is now engaged in working on a book, provisionally entitled, Making Sense of Pakistan.

Jonathan Spencer's research interests include the study of the history of Sri Lanka, the Sinhala Buddhists, and communalism as they relate to the social anthropology, politics, violence, and rural change of this region. His works include The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology (co-edited with Alan Barnard, 1998); Sri Lanka: History and the Roots of Conflict (1990); and A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble : Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka (1990).
  • Romila Thapar, Kluge Centre, Library of Congress

Romila Thapar is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and has been Visiting Professor at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania as well as the Collège de France in Paris. In 1983 she was elected General President of the Indian History Congress and in 1999 a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Her publications include Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas (rev. ed., 1997); Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations; From Lineage to State: social formations in the mid-first millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley (1984); History and Beyond (2000); Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories (1999); and Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History (1995) as well the children's book Indian Tales.

Thongchai Winichakul is a specialist in the intellectual and cultural history of Thailand, with an emphasis on knowledge and the construction of the Thai nationhood. His first book, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation (University of Hawaii Press, 1994), which received the Harry J. Benda Prize by the Association for Asian Studies in 1995, is about the encounter between the modern and indigenous geographical knowledges and mapping which resulted in the geo-body of Siam. His work in progress shifts the focus to historical knowledge: the demarcation between what is and what is not history, the hybrid knowledge of the past, and the formulation of the master narrative of Thai history. .
  • Guoguang Wu Political Science and History, University of Victoria

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Guoguang Wu is teaching political science and history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he also holds a chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. He completed his undergraduate education at Peking University in China, and in the late-1980s worked as an editorialist for the People’s Daily and a policy advisor on political reform to Chinese national leaders. Obtaining his Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University, he has been a Nieman Fellow and an An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard, a Luce Fellow at Columbia, and has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in comparative politics and international relations with emphases on China and East Asia. His publications include a dozen books and numerous articles.

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