ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dennis J. Blasko served as army attaché in Beijing and Hong Kong from 1992 to 1996 and has written extensively on developments in the Chinese ground forces over the past two decades. He is the author of The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the Twenty-First Century, which has been reissued in a second edition (2011).

Chang Juit-te is professor of history at Chinese Culture University and adjunct researcher at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei. He is the author of three books, including Anatomy of the Nationalist Army, 1937-1945 (1993, in Chinese), and is currently working on a book about the decision-making processes of the Nationalist government.

Edward L. Dreyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and taught Chinese history and military history at the University of Miami from 1970 until his death in 2007. His publications include Early Ming China: A Political History, 1352-1435 (1982), China at War, 1901-1949 (1995), and Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 (2007).

June Teufel Dreyer is professor of political science at the University of Miami and analyst of the contemporary Chinese military. Her publications include China's Forty Millions (1976) and China's Political System: Modernization and Tradition, now in its eighth edition.

David A. Graff, associate professor of history at Kansas State University, is the author of Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 (2002).

Robin Higham is professor emeritus of military history at Kansas State University (1963-1998) and author or editor of more than sixty books in military history and other subjects, including the forthcoming Two Roads to War: The French and British Air Arms from Versailles to Dunkirk and The Air Battles of 1940 over France and Britain, both from Naval Institute Press (2012).

Richard S. Horowitz is professor of history and chair of the Department of History at California State University, Northridge. He has published a number of articles on Chinese history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is now at work on a book manuscript on China and globalization in the nineteenth century.

Paul Lococo Jr. is professor of history at the University of Hawaii-Leeward. He is coauthor of War in World History (2008).

Peter Lorge is assistant professor of Chinese and military history at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (2011).

Stephen R. MacKinnon is a professor of history at Arizona State University. He coedited Scars of War: Impact of Warfare on Modern China (2001) and is the author of Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China (2008).

Edward A. McCord is associate professor of history and international affairs at The George Washington University. He is the author of The Power of the Gun: The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism (1993).

Ralph D. Sawyer, an independent scholar who studied at MIT and Harvard, specializes in Chinese military and intelligence issues, both historic and contemporary. A senior research fellow with the Warring States Project and a fellow of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, he also serves as a consultant to conglomerates and defense agencies.

William Wei is professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specializing in modern China and Asian America. His major works are Counterrevolution in China: The Nationalists in Jiangxi during the Soviet Period (1985) and The Asian American Movement (1993).

Larry M. Wortzel is president of Asia Strategies and Risks, LLC, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and a commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is a retired U.S. Army colonel who served at the American embassy in China from 1988 to 1990 as assistant army attaché, and from 1995 to 1997 as army attaché. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College and earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Hawaii. His other books include China's Military Modernization (1988), The Chinese Armed Forces in the 21st Century (1999), and the Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military History (1999).

David Curtis Wright is associate professor of history at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh-Century China: Sung's Foreign Relations with Kitan Liao (2005) and is currently researching the Mongol conquest of Southern Song China.

Maochun Yu is associate professor of military history and modern China at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the author of OSS in China: Prelude to the Cold War (1997, 2011), The Dragon's War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947 (2006), and numerous articles on the military and intelligence history of World War II and the Cold War.