About E-ASPAC
E-AsPac is the electronic journal of the scholarly association ASPAC (Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast), the regional organization of the Association for Asian Studies. E-AsPac is peer reviewed by a board of scholars in Asian Studies. Technical support is provided by the Matsushita Center for Electronic Learning (MCEL) at Pacific University and by student majors from the Computer Science and Integrated Media programs at Pacific.
Editorial Board
The members of the editorial board of E-AsPac are active Asian Studies scholars who are comfortable working in electronic materials. If you would like to apply to join our editorial board, please send a CV to Jeffrey Barlow, Executive Editor, E-AaPac. barlowj@pacificu.edu
• Executive Editor: Jeffrey Barlow < barlowj@pacificu.edu >
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/history/dept/barlow.html
Jeffrey Barlow, Executive Editor, E-AsPac, is the Matshushita Chair of East Asian Studies at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, USA. His Ph.D. is in Modern Chinese History from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former President of ASPAC and edits The Journal of the Association for History and Computing (JAHC). His area of current interest, in addition to the impact of the Internet upon global cultures, is the Zhuang minority of South China.
• Managing Editor: Bill Vanderbok < Vanderbok@socal.rr.com >
Bill manages electronic communications for both E-AsPac, AsPac Papers, and for AsPac in general. A semi-retired political scientist from Indiana University, he specializes in South Asian affairs and research methodology. His current research focuses on the use of the Internet for the creative construction of data modeled on the Open Source movement. He is on the board of the East-West Center Association (Hawaii), chaired the 2003 AsPac conference in Honolulu and is president-elect of AsPac.
• Co-Editor: Timothy Lim < tclim@calstatela.edu >
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/tclim
Timothy Lim is an Associate Professor at California State University, Los Angeles and Associate Director of the Center for Korean American and Korean Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University. His current research focuses on transnational worker migration in Asia. Professor Lim has also written and published extensively on the political economy of South Korea.
• Giselle Bousquet < bousquetg@mindspring.com >
Giselle is an independent scholar working in the field of Vietnamese studies. Her Ph.D. is from the University of California, Berkeley. Among her publications is: Behind the bamboo hedge: the impact of homeland politics in the Parisian Vietnamese community, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
• Ya-chen Chen < chen53@purdue.edu >
After teaching as a tenured lecturer in her home country, working at the Academia Sinica (Taiwan), studying in Columbia University, and being a visiting scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, Ya-chen Chen will soon receive her doctoral degree at Purdue University. Her areas of specialization include: comparative literary theories, East-West cultural studies, feminisms and gender theories, women's literature, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual/Transvestite) literature, Taiwan literature, modern Chinese literature & film study, Asian-American literature & cinema study.
• Mayumi Itoh < itoh@unlv.edu > < mitoh@ccmail.nevada.edu >
Mayumi Itoh is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Her Ph.D. is in comparative politics and international relations from the City University of New York. Her particular area of current interest is Japanese domestic politics and Japanese foreign policy, as well as U.S.-Japan relations and Sino-Japanese relations.
• Kevin Kawamoto < kawamoto@u.washington.edu >
Kevin Kawamoto is the author of Media and Society in the Digital Age (Allyn & Bacon, 2003) and has taught digital media and global communication courses at the University of Washington. He was a technology studies manager at The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York City and currently works as a Seattle-based communications consultant, writer and researcher. He is editing a second book called Digital Journalism: Views from the Horizon (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).
• Chris Keaveney < ckeaven@linfield.edu >
Christopher Keaveney is an Associate Professor of Japanese and
Co-Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Linfield College in
McMinnville, Oregon. His Ph.D is in Comparative Literature from
Washington University in St. Louis. His current research concerns
relations between the Chinese and Japanese literary communities in the
Interwar period. He is the author of The Subversive Self in Modern
Chinese Literature (Palgrave, 2004).
• Sun Laichen
Sun Laichen is Assistant Professor at California State University, Fullerton, and was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2003). His Ph.D. is in Southeast Asian history from the University of Michigan. He specializes in early modern history of mainland Southeast Asia, especially the overland interactions between China and Southeast Asia. He is also interested in military history (especially gunpowder technology) of early modern Asia in a global context. His publications include "Chinese Military Technology and Dai Viet: c. 1390-1497" which has been partially translated by BBC Vietnamese.
• Ron Loftus < rloftus@willamette.edu >
Ronald Loftus has been teaching Japanese Studies at Willamette University since 1983. His background includes a BA from George Washington University, and MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School. Special fields of interest include Meiji intellectual history, modern Japanese literature, autobiography, and film studies.
• Tuen-yu Lau < lauty@u.washington.edu >
Dr. Tuen-yu Lau is the Founding Director of the Professional Digital Media Master’s Program at the University of Washington, which focuses on content creation, management and policy. An expert in international media management, Dr. Lau’s dual career in academia and industry has spanned 20 plus years, including professorship and research conducted at Stanford, UCLA, Purdue, and Hong Kong, as well as senior management positions at leading media and I.T. companies in Asia.
• Keiko McDonald < keiko@pitt.edu >
Keiko McDonald is a professor of Japanese Literature and Cinema at the University of Pittsburgh. She has written extensively on Japanese cinema and literature, lectured widely in both the U.S. and Japan, and received a number of teaching excellence awards, including the Tina and David Bellet CAS Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award.
• Pamela A. Moro < pmoro@williamette.edu >
Pamela A. Moro, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Willamette
University, received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of
California, Berkeley. Her areas of interest include music in Southeast
Asia (especially Thailand), religion, folklore, and gender. Her
publications include Thai Music and Musicians in Contemporary Bangkok
(Center for SE Asia Studies Monograph 34, UC Berkeley, 1993), and recent
articles on the relationship between elite music and nationalism in
South and Southeast Asia. She also conducts research on
lesbian/feminist and gay-identified choruses.
• Carl Mosk < mosk@uvic.ca >
Professor of Economics, University of Victoria Victoria, B.C., CANADA Ph.D.Harvard University. Carl has been a Visiting Scholar at the Kyoto Institute of Economics, at the Department of Sociology Doshisha Univ., at the Institute for InternationalEconomics, Nagoya Univ., at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, at theInternational Research Center for Japanese Studies, at the Henry Jackson School of International Affairs, University of Washington, and an Affiliate of theCenter for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, among many other honors.
• Sundeep Nayak < Sundeep.Nayak@miis.edu >
Sundeep K Nayak is the Deputy Director and Teaching Faculty at the National Academy of Administration, Government of India. His M.A. is in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California. His particular area of current interest are civil military relations, conflict resolution in South Asia and negotiating across sub-national identities in India.
• Danny Paau < dpaau@hkbu.edu.hk >
Danny Paau is Professor of History and Director of the Sino-western Relations Research Program at the Hong Kong Baptist University. His Ph.D. is in Modern European Intellectual History from the University of Georgia and the major focus of his research is China's intellectual history and its relations with the West. He also examines modern and contemporary China, Sino-US Relations and current issues in Hong Kong and Taiwan studies. He has presented over 80 lectures in Hong Kong, China, Russia, Australia, USA and other places.
• Linda E. Patrik < patrikl@union.edu >
http://ww.union.edu/PUBLIC/PHLDEPT/faculty
Linda E. Patrik is Professor of Philosophy at Union College in Schenectady, NY. Her research and teaching have been in Continental philosophy, Asian Philosophy, Feminism, and Aesthetics. Since 1998 she has been a member of the Nitartha Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist institute that translates and teaches classical philosophical texts from the Kagyü and Nyingma canons. She is also the Faculty Advisor for I.D.E.A.S., an electronic journal for undergraduate research in Asian Studies, sponsored by Union College.
• Vincent Kelly Pollard < pollard@hawaii.edu >
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pollard/
Vincent K. Pollard specializes in comparative and world politics. His first book looks at power sharing foreign policy and society in the Philippines and Japan. Pollard initiated and edits of the online Taiwan Cross-Strait Directory and the Chinese Cultures Abroad Directory. A member of the editorial board for the online educational technology journal Innovate, Pollard has undertaken a collaborative international project on state capitalism in communist and noncommunist societies in Asia and elswhere. At the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, he teaches Asian studies, political science and honors courses.
• Atsuko Sato < atsukos@hawaii.edu >
Atsuko Sato is working toward her Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Her dissertation examines Japan' s foreign policy as related to global atmospheric issues, including ozone layer depletion and climate change, focusing on scientific knowledge and values. She teaches in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles.
• Henry G. Schwarz < schwarz@cc.wwu.edu >
Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Western Washington University. He is the author or editor of fourteen books and of numerous book chapters and articles on Mongolia, the Uyghurs, and the minorities of China. He is currently the president of the Mongolia Society of the United States and vice-president of the International Association for Mongol Studies. From 1971 to 1994, he was the editor-in-chief of the book series Studies on East Asia and East Asian Research Aids and Translations.
• Ping Yao < pyao@exchange.calstatela.edu >
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/history/yao.htm
Ping Yao is an Assistant Professor of History at the California State University, Los Angeles. Her Ph.D. is in Chinese history from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Her areas of research include Tang China and women in Chinese history.
• Joseph K. S. Yick < jy02@txstate.edu >
Joseph K. S. Yick is Professor of History at Texas State University-San Marcos. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has served as president of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and as editor of the conference journal. He is the author of Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-1949 (M.E. Sharpe, 1995).
• Jing-dong Yuan < jing-dong.yuan@miis.edu >
http://www.cns.miis.edu/db/china/
Dr. Jing-dong Yuan is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and teaches Chinese Politics and Northeast Asian security and arms control at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Queen’s University in 1995 and has had research and teaching appointments at Queen’s University, York University, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia.