XIAOYUAN LIU is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and State University of New York at Potsdam. His publications include "A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945" (1996), as well as numerous articles in English and Chinese in the fields of East Asian international relations and China's foreign and frontier affairs.