Qinghai Chen is coordinator of the Chinese language program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He served as chair of the Chinese section of the annual Asian Business Languages Workshop from 1997 to 2001, and chaired the University of Michigan Business Chinese Workshop in 2003. Since 1997, he has coordinated a national special interest group in business Chinese instruction. Mr. Chen’s experience includes development and instruction of business Chinese courses of various emphases and language levels. His publications include Business Chinese Education: A Challenging and Promising Endeavor into the Twenty-first Century (JCLTA, 1999) and Variables and Solutions in Business Chinese Curriculum Design (JOLIB, 2003).

Brad Farnsworth is director of the Center for International Business Education at the University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He teaches to undergraduates, M.B.A. students, and executives on the topics of business in China, international management, the world economy, and globalization. Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty, he served as associate director of the Yale-China Association, during which time he developed one of the first management training programs with foreign cooperation in mainland China. Mr. Farnsworth has served as a consultant to companies interested in China, working primarily with the automotive industry. He holds degrees in business and Chinese studies from Washington University, St. Louis.

Shiao Dong Han is the director of the International Retail Services Group, Asia Pacific Region, of United Parcel Service (UPS), Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering, an M.A. in international business, and an M.B.A. from Rollins College. Ms. Han joined UPS in 1990 and has held various positions, including supervisory positions in industrial engineering and business development, marketing analyst, and project manager in the international marketing department of the UPS Corporate Marketing Group. In 2002, she became a corporate international strategist. An outspoken advocate for the evaluation of the UPS China strategy, she helped develop the Greater China Strategy for UPS. She has served as president of the Association of Chinese Professionals, Atlanta; board member of the Federation of Association of Chinese Professionals in Southeastern America; board advisor for the Association of Chinese Professionals in Atlanta; board advisor for the Chinese Business Association of Atlanta, 2000-2002; and is a current member of the board of trustees for the Atlanta International School.

Wei Hong is an associate professor of Chinese, assistant head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, coordinator of the Chinese Language Program, and co-director of the China Center at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She earned an M.A. in German from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in 1986, and a PhD in contrastive linguistics from Purdue University in 1993. Her published books include Practical Business Chinese (China Books and Periodicals, 1997) and Chinese and German Requests: A Cross-Cultural Study (LINCOM EUROPA, 1998) and her articles include studies on multimedia-assisted learning of Chinese and business Chinese.

Greg Hundley's interests include human resource management, compensation and reward, international human resource management, and labor relations. His current areas of research include strategic human resource management, self employment, and international compensation. Professor Hundley is also interested in the effects of collective bargaining on human resource outcomes.
His publication credits include "The Effects of Unions on Recruitment and Selection Practices" (with M. Koch), Industrial Relations, 36(2) (1997); "The Effects of Profitability and Liquidity on R&D Intensity: Japanese and U.S. Companies Compared" (with C. Jacobson and S. Park), Academy Management Journal, 59(5) (1996); and "Public- and Private Sector Occupational Pay Structures," Industrial Relations, 30(3) (1991).
Professor Hundley has been on the faculties of the University of Oregon, University of Western Australia and Xavier University. He is on the editorial board of Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Industrial Relations Research Association. In 2001, he received the John and Mary Willis Young Faculty Scholar Award.

Robert Kasten has been employed by General Motors since 1968. He is currently located at GM Powertrain World Headquarters in Pontiac, Michigan, operating in three separate worldwide market segments as:
Manager, International Hybrid Programs, Allison Transmission
Manager, Defense Programs, GM Powertrain
Manager, Alliance Sales, GM Powertrain

From 1997-2002, Robert was Commercial Director, Allison Transmission - Asia Pacific Operations, located in Tokyo, Japan. From 1990-1995, he was Region Manager, Allison Transmission - Asia Pacific, located in Singapore. From 1998-1990, he was Region Manager, Allison Transmission - Latin America. Robert is currently developing commercial hybrid electric drive programs in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and other locations within Asia Pacific, as well as Eastern and Western Europe, and Latin America.

Jane C. M. Kuo is a professor of Chinese and coordinator of the modern languages department at Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management, in Glendale, Arizona. She teaches all levels of Chinese business language and culture for Thunderbird’s M.B.A. and E.M.B.A. programs. As the director of the China Summer Program, she has taught Thunderbird students at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and the University of Hong Kong. Ms. Kuo conducts cross-cultural communication seminars to major corporations through Thunderbird’s executive education program. She has authored two volumes of Open for Business, Lessons in Chinese Commerce for the New Millennium, has written several articles in professional journals, and has presented research papers at domestic and international conferences.

Lening Liu is a professor of the Chinese language at Columbia University, New York, New York. He is also director of Columbia University’s Chinese language programs and director of Columbia’s summer programs in China. A native of Xian City, China, Mr. Liu has an M.A. in history of the Chinese language from Shaanxi Normal University and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Florida.

Luxin Wang is currently an MBA student at Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. Before he joined Krannert, he earned a Masters degree in Computational Engineering from Mississippi State University NSF ERC. He has a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked in the sales/marketing department in a variety of industries including Petroleum/Chemical, Information Technology, and Automobile. He has worked for IBM China, Global Service for two years, as a sales specialist. He worked for a major U.S. automobile dealer group as a sales manager before he joined Krannert. For the past summer, he interned with Biomet Orthopedics, a world leader in the orthopedic industry.