Xiaobing Li is professor and chair of the Department of History and Geography and the director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Qiang Fang is professor of East Asian history at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Xiaobing Li is professor and chair of the Department of History and Geography and the director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Chen Liu is associate professor of cultural geography in the School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University.