Wilton Dillon Is Senior Scholar Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution

CONTRIBUTORS

Devon Burke is a teacher in Japan’s JET program and an Honors 2009 graduate of MaryBaldwinCollege where she majored in Asian Studies. She spent a semester at Doshisha Women’s College while at MBC.

Wilton Dillon is Senior Scholar Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution.

Lucien Ellington is Co-director of the Asia Program and UC Foundation Professor of Education at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the founding editor of Education About Asia.

Quan Manh Ha is a PhD candidate in English at TexasTechUniversity with a concentration on multicultural studies and racial/ethnic issues in Asian American texts. In additions to 15 articles in journals such as Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies Review, and the Southern Humanities Review, Ha published the Introduction to The Consolation of Queen Elizabeth I: The Queen's Translation of Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae (2009) and a book-length translation of West-East Calligraphy (2009).

He Jing is the Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Translation and Interpreting, School of English and International Studies, BeijingForeignStudiesUniversity. She is a member of International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies and China Association for Intercultural Communication. Her doctoral research focus is on a comparative study of Chen Ran and Amy Tan from postmodern feminist perspectives.

Mujtaba Isani is a graduate student in political science at MarquetteUniversity.

Cynthia Kirkland is an honors arts and Asian Studies major at MaryBaldwinCollege. She will study at Doshisha Women’s College during the Fall 2011 semester.

Alexis Littlefield is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of International Politics,National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.

Daniel A. Métraux is Professor of Asian Studies at MaryBaldwinCollege and adjunct professor of history at Union Institute and University. He has written extensively on modern Japanese and East Asian history, religion and culture.

Katherine Smalley is a 2010 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with majors in International Studies and Spanish.

Tsai Tung-chieh is a Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Politics and Director of Center for Global Peace and Strategy Studies, NationalChungHsingUniversity, and a visiting scholar at the Asiatic Research Institute, KoreaUniversity.

Dave Wangis the Manager of Hollis Library and an Adjunct Professor of St. John'sUniversity. His teaching and researching field focuses on the relationship between the United States and China.

Wang Yinghui is a lecturer in NationalDefenceUniversity in China. She is now doing a master’s program in strategic studies in RSIS, NanyangTechnologicalUniversity. Her academic interests include maritime security, counterterrorism and Southeast Asia security.