Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Timothy Ka-ying Wong is a Research Officer and Director of the Telephone Survey Research Laboratory of the Hong Kong Insti­ tute of Asia-Pacific Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His major research interests include cross-Taiwan Strait relations and social and political development in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has contributed articles to Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Perspective, Journal of East Asian Affairs, and Issues and Studies. Zhiqun Zhu, a member of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (U.S.A.), is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of South Carolina. He was a research associate at the American Studies Center of Shanghai International Studies Uni­ versity. He also served as a senior program assistant at the U.S. Information Service in Shanghai. Xiaoxiong Yi is Associate Professor of Political Science at Marietta College (Ohio, USA), where he also directs international programs. He has been a guest professor of international politics at the University of International Relations, Beijing. His articles have appeared in Asian Survey and Asian Affairs: An American Review. Currently, he is working on a monograph concerning China's America policy. Alvin Magid is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Albany, U.S.A. In 1997-1998, he was a Fulbright Professor at Yonsei University, Seoul, and in the summer of 1999 he was a research fellow in the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, Seoul. He is currently writing a book entitled How Angry Is Heaven?: A China Journal in the Time ofTiananmen, about the democracy movement in Shanghai in the spring of 1989. Seong-Chang Cheong is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Insti­ tute of Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University. His research focuses on North Korean ideology and politics. He is the author of Ideologic et systeme en Coree du Nord: De Kim Il-Song a Kim ChongIl (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997). Sunhyuk Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. His research interests include democratization, civil society, and environmental politics. His most recent publications have appeared in Asian Survey and in Larry Diamond and Doh C. Shin, eds., Institutional Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Korea (Hoover Institution Press, 1999). Melissa G. Curley is a Research Officer on the China-ASEAN Project at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. She is co-author, with Lloyd Pettiford, of Changing Security Agen­ das and the Third World (Pinter, 1999). Her research interests include NGO-state relations, the relationship between security and development, and the Southeast Asian security environment. Milton Leitenberg has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, since 1989. He is author or editor of over 100 books and articles concerning international conflict and military industry, among them Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters (Praeger and the Center tor Strategic and International Studies, 1987). ...