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Contributors Roberta E. Adams is professor of English at Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where she has been on the faculty since 1988, teaching courses in British and world literatures and writing. Dr. Adams has served as a Fulbright Scholar at Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, and taught for one semester at Hangzhou University, China. She is an active member of the Asian Studies Development Program of the University of Hawai’i/East-West Center and of the Japan Studies Association. Dr. Adams earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. Roger T. Ames is professor of Philosophy and editor of Philosophy East & West. His recent publications include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) and Tracing Dao to its Source (1997) (both with D. C. Lau); the Confucian Analects (with H. Rosemont) (1998), Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong, and A Philosophical Translation of the Daodejing: Making This Life Significant (with D. L. Hall) (2001). He has also authored many interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987), Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (1995), and Thinking From the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (1997) (all with D. L. Hall). Recently he has undertaken several projects that entail the intersection of contemporary issues and cultural understanding. His Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China (with D. L. Hall) (1999) is a product of this effort. Peter D. Hershock is coordinator of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i. He has earned degrees from Yale University (B.A., Philosophy) and the University of Hawai’i (Ph.D., Asian and Comparative Philosophy) and has focused his research on the philosophical dimensions of 247 248 Contributors Chan Buddhism and on using the resources of Buddhist thought and practice to address contemporary issues, including technology and development, education, human rights, and the role of normative values in cultural and social change. His books include Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch’an Buddhism(StateUniversityofNewYorkPress,1996);Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age (State UniversityofNewYorkPress,1999);aneditedvolume,Technology and Cultural Values on the Edge of the Third Millennium (2004); and Chan Buddhism (2004). Wenshan Jia, Ph. D. in Communication from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Chapman University. He is the holder of the Wang-Fradkin Professorship 2005–2007 and the recipient of Early Career Award from the International Academy for Intercultural Research. Jia is a Fellow of International Academy for Intercultural Research and author of the award-winning book The Remaking of the Chinese Character and Identity in the 21st Century: The Chinese Face Practices, a dozen research articles and book chapters as well as coeditor of several books. Tao Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, teaching Buddhism and classical Chinese religion and philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Religion at Temple University in 2001. His articles appear in Philosophy East & West, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Journal of Indian Philosophy, and Dao, etc. His book, Contexts and Dialogue: Yoḡacāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind, is forthcoming from the University of Hawai’i Press. He is currently working on Confucianism and law. Keith N. Knapp is associate professor of History at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. He is the author of Selfless Offspring: Filial Children and Social Order in Early Medieval China (University of Hawai’i Press, 2005). Currently he is translating two Chinese manuscripts on the lives of filial paragons that have been preserved in Kyoto, Japan. Steven B. Miles received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 2000 and is currently an assistant professor in the [44.222.122.246] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:37 GMT) Contributors 249 Department of History at Washington University in Saint Louis. His first book, The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou, to be published by the Harvard University Asia Center, is a cultural history of the Xuehaitang academy, urban Guangzhou (Canton), and the Pearl River delta. He is currently working on a book project that will examine Cantonese migration, trade, and travel...