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Aoyagi, Hiroshi (Kokushikan University, Japan)
Professor of Program in Globalising Asia Studies (Doctoral), Kokushikan University, Japan. Research interests include Cultural Anthropology, Culture Industries, Adolescent Studies, Ethnographic Research Methods.

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Benjamin, Solomon (National Institute of Advanced Studies, India)
Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India. Research interests include city economy, land, politics, and poverty.

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Chow Yiu Fai (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Assistant Professor at the Humanities Programme, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his PhD degree at the University of Amsterdam. Chow is also a veteran lyric-writer for Chinese-language popular music.

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Fan Wing Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Lecturer, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Major Research Interests: Intellectual History of Modern China, History of Modern Chinese Culture, History of Asia, History of Korea, Sino-Korean Relations.

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Iwabuchi, Koichi (Waseda University, Japan)
Professor in the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University. Research interests are media and cultural globalization in East Asia, especially in terms of political economy and critique of soft power policy discourses and multicultural questions, transnationalism and cultural citizenship.

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Kim Eumie, Loretta (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Assistant Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University. Kim specializes in the history of Qing dynasty borderlands and non-Han peoples, and teaches courses on modern Asia, imperial and modern China, as well as comparative history.

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Kloet, Jeroen de (University of Amsterdam)
Assistant Professor at the Department of Mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam, he published in numerous journals and co-edited the book Cosmopatriots (Rodopi, 2007), and published in 2010 his monograph China with a Cut - Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music (Amsterdam UP).

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Lo Kwai-Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Professor at the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of  "Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions" (2010) and "Chinese Face/Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong" (2005).

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Park Eun Seok, Roy (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Third-year PhD student in the Centre for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He completed his MA (2007) and BA (2004) in Chinese Literature at Seoul National University, South Korea.

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Perera, Nihal (Ball State University, Indiana, USA)
Professor of Urban Planning and Director of CapAsia, Ball State University. The main area of research interest: how the less powerful create spaces for carrying out daily activities and cultural practices.
Allied areas include: politics of space, urban political-economy; colonial urbanism; postcolonial and subaltern studies; landscape interpretation; world-systems; politics of development and planning; issues of identity, representation, gender; international development; multicultural planning, globalization, Asian urbanism and planning.

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Sakai, Naoki (Cornell University, New York, USA)
Professor in Japanese Literature and History (Tokugawa Period), Cornell University. He teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies and is a member of the graduate field of History at Cornell University. He has published in a number of languages in the fields of comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, the studies of racism and nationalism, and the histories of semiotic and literary multitude - speech, writing, corporeal expressions, calligraphic regimes, and phonographic traditions.

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Shih Chi-Yu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
University of Denver, Ph.D in International Studies (1988); Harvard University, MPP in International Security (1984);
National Taiwan University, B.A. in Political Science / International Relations (1980);
University Chair Professor (08-11), Full/Associate Professor, Department of Political Science;
National Taiwan University (since 90), Visiting Professor, National Sun Yatsen University (05-07);
National Chair Professor (01-04); Assistant Professor, Ramapo College of N.J. (88-90);
Winona State University (87-88); Adjunct Professor, Colorado School of Mines (86)
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Sun Ge (Chinese Aacademy of Social Sciences, China)
Researcher (Professor) and the Assistant Director of the Research Group in the Comparative Literature Group at the Literature Research Institute of the China Academy of Social Studies, in Beijing China.  A academic of standing since 1988 in the People’s Republic of China, Dr. Sun received an additional Ph.D. in Politics and Law in 2003, from Tokyo Metropolitan University, in Tokyo Japan.

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Tam Dic Sze, Daisy (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Research Assistant Professor at the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University.
PhD in Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. Research interests include: food practices, communities, public, commons, sociality, care, economy of contribution.

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Tankha, Brij (University of Delhi, India)
Professor of East Asian Studies University of Delhi. He received his Ph.D. in Delhi University in 1989, M.A in St. Stephen's College, D.U.. His research interests / Specialization is Modern Japanese history.

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Wills, John E. Jr. (University of Southern California, California, USA)
Professor Emeritus of Department of History, University of Southern California. He served as acting chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from 1987 to 1989 and as director of the East Asian Studies Center from 1990 to 1994. He brought Asia to the College history department, retired as a professor of history at the end of the 2004 academic year, nearly four decades after he joined the USC faculty.

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Zhang Lok Cheung, Lawrence (City University of Hong Kong)
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Chinese Civilization Centre, City University of Hong Kong. B.A. Oberlin College, Ph.D. Harvard University.
He was an Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies in Bowdoin College
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