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Yusheng Yao is Associate Professor of History at Rollins College. Professor Yao's research interests include twentieth-century Chinese history, especially the issue of modernity and cultural identity. He has published articles on modern Chinese history, literature, and contemporary politics in Modern China, the China Quarterly, Twentieth-Century China and the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.

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YIN Hong is a professor at South China Normal University. From 1990-96 she taught in the History Department at Guangxi Minority College.  From 1996-1999 she studied in the History Department of Capital Normal University where she received her Ph.D. Prof. Yin currently teaches in the History Department of South China Normal University. Her research focuses on the history of Great Britain. As a Harvard-Yenching  Institute Visiting Scholar, her research project examined the vagrant problem in England from the 17th to 19th century, looking at the background of the vagrant problem, their living conditions, their relationship with society, the attitude of society, and acts of the  government.

Niu Ke is an associate professor of Department of History, Peking University, and also a researcher at PKU's Center for Studies of World Modernization Process. He received his B.A. in 1992 and Ph.D. in 1998 from PKU. His research interests include East Asian NICs development process, development/modernization theories, Cold War history, U.S. aid/development policy to the Third World and its influences, and the interactions between U.S. social sciences and government policy. His research at the Harvard-Yenching institute focused on the U.S. role in Taiwan's postwar development.

Prof. Le got her BA in Russian, Hanoi Foreign Languages College, Hanoi-Vietnam and in History, Vietnamese National University, Hanoi- Vietnam. She got her Ph.D. in History in Vietnamese National University, Hanoi-Vietnam in 2001. Her research interest is American relations  with the Asia-Pacific region in the post WWII period, especially the US policy with Southeast Asia; the US - ASEAN relations and America's role  in East Asia.