Acknowledgments
This book is based on extensive interviews with participants in biodiversity
conservation policy-making in China and Taiwan, as well as on voluminous
research materials, collected in China, Taiwan, and the United States. Many
scholars provided information and shared contacts with us. In China, we
thank Yang Ning of China Foreign Affairs University’s (FAU) Waiban office,
for arranging interviews with government officials. Liu Zongyi, CFAU
doctoral student, provided essential research assistance in the Spring of 2004;
Wang Bo, CFAU doctoral student, chased down sources too numerous to
mention, organized interviews, and cheerfully collected data in the 2004–
academic year. For informing our perspective and supplying research
materials we thank: Xie Yan, Wang Sung, Ma Keping, Jiang Zhigang, Sun
Yue-Hua, Chen Zuo Zhong, Han Nianyong, and Zhao Shiwei of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences; Zheng Yisheng, Sun Changjin, and Qian Yihong of
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Lu Xiaoping, Lu De, and Zhang
Dehui of the State Forestry Administration; Xue Dayuan and Zhu Guangqing
of the State Environmental Protection Administration; Wang Bin of the
State Oceanic Administration; Liang Congjie of Friends of Nature; Lu Zhi
of Beijing University; Qi Ye of Qinghua University; Li Junqing of Beijing
Forestry University; and Jock Whitlesy, Kate Pongonis, and Qian Qihong
of the US Embassy, Beijing’s section on Environment, Science, and
Technology.
In Taiwan we thank Professor Liu I-Chou, Dean of Research and
Development of National Chengchi University for his support and Prof. Shieh
Jyh-cherng of the Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering,
National Taiwan University, who shared his contacts with ENGO represen-
tatives and government officials. Graduate assistants Chen Rung-yi and Lee
Pei-hsin of National Chengchi University assisted in field research and data
collection.
For their review of earlier versions of manuscript chapters, we are grateful
to Lee Wei-chin of Wake Forest University, Rich Harris of the University of
Montana, Andrew Smith of Arizona State University, James Gladden of the
University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Jennifer Turner of the Wilson Center. We
thank Courtney Pagh, administrative assistant in the political science
department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, for assistance in manuscript
preparation, and Alan Sturmer, acquisitions editor of Edward Elgar Publishing
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