:: Dr. Chu-yuan Cheng

Chu-yuan Cheng, Professor of Economics, Ball State University, Indiana, received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. He is the author of more than 30 books on Chinese economy. Among the are: China's Economic Development: Growth and Structural Change (Westview Press), Taiwan as a Model for China's Modernization (Linking Press), Sun Yat-Sen's Doctrine in Modern World (Westview Press), Behind the Tianamen Massacre (Westview Press), China's Economic Reform: Programs, Effects, and Prospects (Eurasian Association), and more than one hundred articles in academic journals.

Professor Cheng served as President of the American Association for Chinese Studies (1996-1998), and research member of the Presidential National Unification Council, Republic of China (1992-1996). He is currently President and Board of Directors for Sun Yat-Sen Institute in America and counsultant to the National Science Foundation.