Robert E. Bedeski is professor of political science at the University of Victoria
in Victoria, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Cali-
fornia at Berkeley. Among his major publications are State-Building in Modern
China: The Kuomintang in the Pre-war Period; The Fragile Entente: The 1978
Japan-China Peace Treaty in a Global Context; and The People's Republic of
China--Relations in Asia: The Strategic Implications. He has contributed to
many major scholarly journals.

Hsi-sheng Ch'i is professor of political science and director of the East Asian
Studies Curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was
educated at Tunghai University in Taiwan and received his Ph.D. degree from
the University of Chicago. He is the author of Warlord Politics in China, 1916-
1928 and Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse,
1937-1945. His most recent book is Politics of Disillusionment: The Chinese
Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping, 1978-1989.

John W. Garver, associate professor of political science at the Georgia Institute
of Technology, received his B.A. degree from Oklahoma State University and
his Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado. He is the author of China's
Decision for Rapprochement with the United States, 1968-1971 and Chinese-
Soviet Relations, 1937-1945: The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism, and has
contributed numerous articles to leading scholarly journals. At present he is
completing a book-length study of the foreign relations of the People's Republic
of China.

Steven M. Goldstein is professor of government and chair of the Department of
Government at Smith College. He received his B.A. degree from Tufts and his
Ph.D. degree from Columbia. He is the co-editor of Single Sparks: China's Rural
Revolutions and has published widely on both Chinese foreign and domestic
policy, with a particular interest in Sino-Soviet relations.

Edward Gunn is professor of Chinese literature at Cornell University. He
earned his doctorate at Columbia University. Dr. Gunn has published several
studies relating to the war period, among them Unwelcome Muse: Chinese Liter-ature in Shanghai and Peking, 1937-45

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