James Mulvenon James Mulvenon is an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Washington, DC and Deputy Director of RAND's Center for Asia-Pacific Policy. With the Council of Advanced Policy Studies in Taipei, he is the co-organizer of RAND's annual conference on the Chinese military and co-editor of its latest edited volume, entitled Seeking Truth From Facts: A Retrospective on Chinese Military Studies in the Post-Mao Era (CF-160-CAPP). The previous volume was entitled The People's Liberation Army in the Information Age (CF-145-CAPP/AF). A specialist on the Chinese military, Dr. Mulvenon's current research focuses on Chinese strategic weapons doctrines (information warfare and nuclear warfare), ballistic missile defenses (TBMD) in Asia, Chinese military commercial divestiture, and the military and civilian implications of the information revolution in China. Dr. Mulvenon's most recent book, Soldiers of Fortune (M.E.Sharpe, February 2001), details the rise and fall of the Chinese military's multi-billion dollar international business empire. He has also co-authored a recent article with Bates Gill entitled " China's Second Artillery: Transition to Credible Deterrence," in China and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Implications for the United States, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 5 November 1999. His RAND monographs include Chinese Military Commerce and U.S. National Security (MR-907.0-CAPP) and Professionalization of the Senior Chinese Officer Corps: Trends and Implications (MR-901-OSD). Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Mulvenon is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Association for Asian Studies. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and attended Fudan University in Shanghai from 1991–1992, where he studied Communist Party history. Dr. Mulvenon is married to the former Mary Hampton of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. They reside in Burke, Virginia with their daughter, Kate. XIAO Qiang |