Mark Selden is Senior Research Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University and a coordinator of The Asia-Pacific Journal at http://www.japanfocus.org
. His recent books address historical and contemporary issues in China, Japan and the Asia Pacific in areas of political economy, geopolitics and social change. They include
•War and State Terrorism: The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century.
•Chinese Village, Socialist State.
•China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited.
•The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives.
•Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China.
His home page is http://markselden.info/
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