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Carried out extensive anthropological fieldwork in isolated villages in rural China.

Publications include "Space, Mobility and Flexibility: Chinese Villagers and Scholars Negotiate Power at Home and Abroad" in Ungrounded Empires: the Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (1997); and "Yao: The Practice of Everyday Space in Northern Rural Shanxi" in Landscape, Culture, and Power in Chinese Society (1998).

ALFP Research Project: "Modernization and Its Discontents"

Personal Information: B.A. (Economics), Shanxi School of Economics and Finance, China (1982); M.Sc. (Applied Statistics), Renmin University, China (1985), M.A. (1990) and Ph.D. (1995) in social anthropology, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Endo Suanda (Chairman, Society for Indonesian Performing Arts; Lecturer, Indonesian College of the Arts, Bandung)

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Performed as a dancer, musician, choreographer, and puppeteer in Indonesia and abroad. He also taught and organized performances at various universities in Indonesia and abroad.

Published articles focusing particularly on the performing arts in socio-political context. His research as a ethnomusicologist is currently focused on the shadow Puppet Theater of Cirebon.

ALFP Research Topic: "Local, National, Global: Culturo-Political Dilemma".

Personal Information: B.A. (1973), from the National Dance Academy, Bandung; and M.A. (1983), from Wesleyan University.

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Held past positions as Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology, Universitaet Bielefeld (1980-85); Research Fellow, Center for Social Science Research, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (1985-87, 1989-92); and Deputy Director, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (1995-1998).

Publications include: "Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore" in “Asia Pacific Migration Journal, 5 (1)” (1996), and "Post- and Pre-Modern Ambiguities” in SOJOURN-Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 10 No. 1 (1995).

ALFP Research Topic: "The Concept of Asia".

Personal Information: B.A. from the University of Singapore; Diplom Soziologie (1977) and Doc. rec. soc. (1984) from Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany.

Sylvia L. Mayuga (Writer & Columnist; Chairman, Green Alliance for Mt. Banahaw)

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Extensively involved in organizing communities for sustainable development, and co-founded with fellow eco-activists an NGO group 'Green Alliance'.

Received various awards such as the National Book Award (1982, 1983) and the Focus Award for Best Essay of the Year (1973).

Publications include: Journey to the Center (a monograph on Philippines art and ritual), Earth, Fire and Water (a compilation of essays on art, culture and the environment), and Paraiso (a poetic history of Mt. Banahaw).

ALFP Research Topic: "Religious Faith and Development".

Personal Information: B.A. (1963) from St. Theresa's College, Manila; and M.Sc. (1966) (Comparative Journalism) from Columbia University.

Janadas Devan (Special Correspondent & Leader Writer, Straits Times, Singapore)

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Published various papers in academic journals, newspapers and magazines. He has also written series of essays on key moments in the history of modern Asia.

Currently working on a book, Model Nation: An Anatomy of a Rational State, a study of how the 'founding' narratives of history in the post-colonial state enable specific social and political formations within the state.

Taught at various universities in Singapore, the U.S. and at Brown University.

ALFP Research Topic: "Asian Modernity"

Personal Information: Read economics, statistics and English at the National University of Singapore; and postgraduate work in English literature and literary theory at Cornell University.

Suwanna Satha-Anand (Assoc. Prof. and Head of Philosophy Dept., Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University)

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Written numerous books and papers on philosophy and religion in contemporary society.

Publications include: "Healing the Earth with Women and Buddhism" in Asia Pacific Women’s Studies Journal, "Prostitution, Buddhism and 'New Rights' in Southeast Asia” in The East Asian Challenges for Human Rights, and “Truth over Convention: Feminist Interpretations of Buddhism” in Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women.

ALFP Research Topic: "Religion and Social Change: Women & Buddhism".

Personal Information: B.A. (Philosophy) from Chulalongkorn University (1977); M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1983) from the University of Hawaii.