DUKE EAST ASIA nexus Vol 1 Issue 1 Linda Zhang President Jack Zhang Editor-in-Chief Alice Ren Graphics Editor Sarah Smith Webmaster Mario Parks Secretary Angela Ryu Chief of Public Relations Youngsoo Kwon Chief of Finance Editorial Board Pablo Vasquez, Alice Ding, Linda Peng, Bruce Xu Advisors Ralph Litzinger Bai Gao Yan Li Anne Allison Alumni Review Board Andrew Cheon, Muyan Jin, Xiameng Sun, Mai Li, Soyoon Sung, Neinei shirakawa, Yue Yin, Yi Xiang, Paul Zhao, Roxanna Goudarzi Special thanks to James Wong for the original DEAN logo design, and to Vice Provost Gilbert Merckx and Dean and Vice Provost Stephen Nowicki for their generous support. Copyright Š 2009 by Duke East Asia Nexus (DEAN) at Duke University DEAN receives support from the Asian Pacific Studies Institute and from the John Spencer Bassett Memorial Fund. DEAN publishes full-length academic papers related to East Asia. The journal is released biannually. DEAN also publishes continuously on its website:
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