Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Tomoko Akami is a lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Her publications include Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute ofPacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919-45 (Routledge, 2002). Her current research projects concern public diplomacy in Imperial Japan, welfare liberalism in the history of international relations, and the nexus of the empire and the nation-state. (E-mail: Tomoko. Akami@anu.edu.au) Brian Bridges is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Sociology and is Associate Director of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He specializes in the politics and international relations of the Asian-Pacific region, especially Northeast Asia, and in Europe's relations with the region. His recent publications include articles in China Quarterly, East Asia: An International Quarterly, and Asia Europe Journal. (Email : bbridges@ln.edu.hk) Che-po Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Poli­ tics and Sociology at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has pub­ lished in the Journal of Contemporary China, International Review of Administrative Sciences, and the Journalfor the Scientific Study ofReli­ gion, among others. His research interests include Chinese public administration, Chinese youth politics, state-society relations, and public opinion in Greater China. (E-mail: chancp@ln.edu.hk) Brendan M. Howe is an Assistant Professor of Diplomacy and Security at Ewha Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul, Korea. He has previously taught in Hawaii, Beijing, and Malaysia. His most recent journal publications appear in Modem Asian Studies, the Journal of International Law and Policy, and the Journal of AsiaPacific Affairs. (E-mail: bmghowe@yahoo.co.uk) Yanzhong Huang is Director of the Center for Global Health Stud­ ies and Assistant Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. He has published articles in Harvard Health Policy Review, Journal of Contemporary China, and Harvard Asia Quarterly. His research inter­ ests include global health governance, health security, and health politics in China. (E-mail: huangyan@shu.edu) Samuel S. Kim teaches in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, where he is also senior research scholar in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is the author or editor of twenty-two books on East Asian international relations and worldorder studies, including most recently The Two Koreas and the Great Powers (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (co-edited with Charles Armstrong, Gilbert Rozman and Steve Kotkin) (M. E. Sharpe, 2006). (E-mail: sskl2@columbia.edu) Quansheng Zhao is Professor and Division Director of Compara­ tive and Regional Studies at the School of International Service of American University in Washington, D.C. He is also Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Har­ vard University. Among his books, which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, are Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 1996), Japanese Policymaking (Oxford University Press/Praeger, 1993), and Future Trends in East Asian International Relations (editor; Frank Cass, 2002). (E-mail: qujzhao@american.edu) Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Executive Director of the Center for China-U.S. Cooperation at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is also founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China. His recently published books are A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics ofModern Chinese Nationalism (Stanford University Press, 2004), Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragma­ tism and Strategic Behavior (M. E. Sharpe, 2003), and China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospectsfor a Democratic China (Routledge , 2000). His new book, Political Reform in China: the Rule ofLaw versus Democratization, is forthcoming in 2006. (E-mail: szhao@du. edu) ...