ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jonathan Anderson

PhD in Economics at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA).

Since 2003 - Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific Economic Region Department of the Swiss bank UBS. Before that, for eight years he was the representative of the International Monetary Fund in Russia. Co-author of the book “The Five Great Myths about China and the World” (2003)

Bazhenova Elena Stepanovna

Candidate of Economic Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Main publications: “Population of China” (1991, co-author), “China in the demographic dimension” (1993)

Berger Yakov Mikhailovich

born 1929 Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Main publications: “Globalization of the Chinese economy” (2003, co-authored), “China: threats, risks, challenges to development” (2005, co-authored), “Results of the 10th Five-Year Plan and the formation of a new model of economic growth in the PRC” (2006)

Boroh Olga Nikolaevna

Candidate of Economic Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Author of the book "Modern Chinese Economic Thought" (1998)

Vinogradov Andrey Olegovich

Born 1955 Candidate of Historical Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the department of international relations at the Institute of Business and Law (Moscow), deputy editor-in-chief of the Profile magazine. Publication: “Descendants of the Dragon” (1999, co-author)

Gelbras Vilya Gdalivich

born 1930 Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University, Chief Researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Author of the books: “The Chinese reality of Russia” (1999), “Russia in the context of global Chinese migration” (2004)

Guobin Yang (Guobin Yang)

Associate Professor, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Culture, Columbia University (New York, USA). PhD in Sociology, New York University, 2000. PhD in English Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 1993. Main publications: “Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China” (2007, ed. ), “Between Control and Contention: China's New Internet Politics” (2006)

Gudoshnikov Leonid Moiseevich

born 1927 Doctor of Law, chief researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. Author of more than 300 published works, including “The Political Mechanism of the PRC” (1974), “The Civil Service System in the PRC” (2001), “How China is Governed” (2nd ed., 2004), “The Political System of Law of the PRC in the Process reforms" (2007)

Ipatova Aida Semenovna

Candidate of Historical Sciences, leading researcher, deputy head of the Russia-China Center. Author of the articles “That’s a pretty big deal...” (1999), “Orthodoxy in the Far East” (2006)

Kamennov Pavel Borisovich

born 1935 Candidate of Political Sciences, leading researcher at the Center for Economic and Social Research of China, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Main publications: “Military Policy of the PRC” (2007), “Military-Industrial Complex” (2007)

Mikheev Vasily Vasilievich

born 1954 Doctor of Economic Sciences. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the sector “Economy and Politics of China and Japan” at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

2003-2005 - member of the Scientific Council, chairman of the Asian Security program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. Author of more than 300 scientific papers, including: “In search of an alternative. Asian models of development: socialist and newly industrialized countries of Asia" (1990), "Homo-International. The theory of social development and international security in the light of the needs and interests of the individual" (1999), "Globalization and Asian regionalism. Challenges for Russia" (2001)

Orekhovsky Petr Alexandrovich

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation. Vice-rector for scientific work of the International Academy of Modern Knowledge (Obninsk). Publications: “Old and new vices of the Russian budget system” (2006), “Cities and reforms” - a collective monograph under the general editorship of P. A. Orekhovsky (2002)

Ostrovsky Andrey Vladimirovich

born 1949 Doctor of Economics, Head of the Center for Economic and Social Research at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Main publications: “Population of China” (1991, co-author), “Formation of the labor market” (2003), “Chinese model of transition to the market” (2007)

Pochagina Olga Valerievna

Candidate of Historical Sciences, assistant member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Main publications: “Cross-border marriages: China and South Korea” 2008), “Sexual services as a social phenomenon in modern China” (2005), “Global-local challenges” (2005)

Ramo Joshua Cooper (Joshua Cooper Ramo)

Managing partner of the John Thornton Institute for Global Leadership (Beijing, China), senior advisor at the consulting firm Goldman Sachs, professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). From 1996 to 2001, he was the foreign editor of Time magazine and a commentator and analyst for CNN. Ramo is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders, an honorary fellow of the Aspen Institute, a co-founder of the US-China Young Leaders Forum, and a member of ASIA 21. Member of the US Foreign Policy Council. An avid aviation enthusiast, Ramo wrote a book about his participation in the aerobatic competition, Invisible Horizon (2004). Author of The Beijing Consensus (2004), Little, Brown (in press)

Toroptsev Sergey Arkadevich

born 1940 Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief researcher, head of the “Literature, Art, Language” group at the Center for the Study of East Asian Civilizations of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. Foreign Member of the Chinese Society for the Study of Li Bo (2007). Laureate of the Government Award of the People's Republic of China "For special contribution to Chinese book publishing" (2006). Author of seven monographs on Chinese cinema, including: “Chinese Cinema in the “Social Field”” (1993), “Cinematography of Taiwan” (1998), ““International Brand” of Chinese Cinema - Director Zhang Yimou” (2008), and also several books on Chinese literature and over 200 articles published in Russia and abroad

Felgenhauer Pavel Evgenievich

Born 1951 Candidate of Biological Sciences.

Military observer for Novaya Gazeta (1991-1993 - military observer for Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 1993-1999 - military observer and member of the editorial board of the Segodnya newspaper). Weekly columnist for the Eurasia Daily Monitor (The Jamestown Foundation)

Fortygina Ekaterina Andreevna

Candidate of Geographical Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Researcher, Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Main publications: “China: land use features and geo-ecological problems” (2007), “Ecological problems in China and changes in behavior pattern” (2008)