HARVEY FELDMAN has recently retired from the
American Foreign Service years as an Asian
specialist. He has served several tours of duty on Taiwan
and was the Director of Republic of China Affairs in the
State Department during Normalization. His last assign-
ment was the United States alternative ambassador to the
United Nations. He now lives, writes and teaches in New
York.

MICHAEL Y. M. KAU is Professor of Political Science
and Director of the Mao's Writing Project and the East
Asian Security Project at Brown University. Professor
Kau received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell
University, and in recent years has conducted research
and lectured in the Soviet Union, Japan, China, Taiwan
and other Asian countries.

ILPYONG J. KIM is Professor of Political Science at the
University of Connecticut. Dr. Kim has written and
edited six books and published more than 3 dozen articles
in professional and academic journals on comparative
and international politics of East Asia ( China, Japan and
Korea) He received his Ph. D. from Columbia University
and has taught in the United States and Japan. His most
recent publication is Political Change in South Korea.

RALPH CLOUGH is the Acting Coordinator in China
Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University. He is a retired Foreign Service
Officer, having spent 13 years in Chinese affairs covering
the Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
He was previously the Director for Chinese affairs at the

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