Wilson Wong Editor-in-Chief A native of Hong Kong and Vancouver, Wilson Wong is a senior studying Economics and Political Science. In addition to his interest in the status of human rights under socialist regimes, he finds developmental economics rather spiffy despite his hatred of math that involves letters. Apart from his involvement with CEAR, Wilson is the Lead Senior Editor of The Journal of Politics & Society. He has no spare time.
	Samantha Lassoff Managing Editor Samantha Lassoff is a junior majoring in East Asian Studies. Her academic interests include pre-modern Chinese and Japanese religion, cultural history, and art. Samantha looks forward to spending the next few years immersed in studying the relationship between Buddhism and the state cults in China and Japan, as well as women's role in Chinese and Japanese religious history. She is currently Managing Editor of the Columbia East Asia Review and has great aspirations for the journal in the coming years.
	Annie Ma Publisher Annie Ma is a senior in Columbia College, double-majoring in Economics and Psychology. This is her second year with the Columbia East Asia Review, having served as Managing Editor last year. After graduation, Annie plans to do psychology research before applying to graduate school, where she will further her interest in scholarly research and the pursuit of esoteric knowledge. In her spare time, Annie enjoys reading blogs, doing Pilates, listening to jazz, dancing to indie rock, and taking names in Mario Kart.
	Rain Bian Lead Senior Editor Rain Bian is a senior majoring in Anthropology and Political Science, with a concentration in Hispanic Studies. She is fully fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has a deep interest in Chinese literature and politics. Her other passions include books, public policy, her thesis on Mexican migration in New York City, and philosophical quagmires. Rain is a Lead Senior Editor of CEAR.
	Katie Rooney Lead Senior Editor Katherine Rooney, Barnard '10, is majoring in East Asian Studies with a focus on China and sociology. She is also pursuing a concentration in history. Katherine has spent the last two summers studying and interning in China and plans to return to Beijing this summer to conduct research on Buddhist material culture. She is also a member of the organizational committee planning the Oscar Lee Symposium of Undergraduate East Asian Studies, a partner organization of CEAR.
	Sam Ashworth Senior Editor Sam is a senior in the school of General Studies majoring in English literature. He likes Sichuanese and Shanghainese food. His future plans involve some kind of combination of fabulously varied international travel and an illustrious career as a high school English teacher. He is a native New Yorker, and was an unrepentant fan of the Yankees long before they started winning again. He won't dance, don't ask him.
	Daniel Chinoy Senior Editor Dan is a senior at Columbia College majoring in History. He grew up in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei, and has done menial work for Hillary Clinton, Fortune Magazine, and the U.S. State Department. Dan used to play the trumpet, and enjoys Baijiu, cheeseburgers, Chinese food, and the proper use of semicolons.
	Chris Morales Senior Editor Christopher Morales is a junior at Columbia College majoring in East Asian Languages and Cultures. He is an Advanced Chinese student and focuses his studies on Chinese literature and culture and their relationship to each other throughout history. He is very interested in the historical process of racial formation in Chinese society, particularly in the large cities that have attracted large populations of ethnic minority groups.
	Kevin Nolan Senior Editor Kevin Nolan is currently a junior at Columbia, completing a joint major in Economics-Statistics. Kevin previously worked as a community development volunteer and English teacher throughout Mongolia for two years. He has since conducted research under fellowships and grants on management and entrepreneurship in Mongolia, South Korea, and China. Kevin recently served as Acting Public Affairs Officer at the American Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, and will return next summer to work in private equity focused on emerging markets.
	Benny Shaffer Senior Editor Benny Shaffer is an East Asian Languages and Cultures major with research interests in Chinese cinema, visual anthropology, and representations of China's ethnic minorities in visual culture. Over the past year, he has spent considerable time in southwest China's Yunnan Province conducting independent research, compiling video footage, and playing drums at various open mic nights in Kunming. He is also an intern at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Concerts Master for Bacchanal Special Events. In the future he plans to continue his research projects in China and possibly pursue graduate studies in Chinese film.
	Sayuri Shimoda Senior Editor Sayuri Shimoda is a junior in Columbia College, majoring in Political Science-Economics and East Asian Studies. She is a Senior Editor for the Columbia East Asia Review. Her primary regional interest is Japan and her favorite class at Columbia so far was Japanese Politics. In addition to her involvement with CEAR, Sayuri is the President of the Columbia Japan Society.
	Amin Ghadimi Associate Editor Amin Ghadimi is a Columbia College first-year. He intends to major in East Asian Languages and Cultures. Outside the classroom and CEAR, Amin contributes to The Spectator, participates in the Columbia Bah? Club and the Columbia Interfaith Collective, and interns at The Mainichi Newspapers. He also enjoys synthesizing ATP, tripping on walkway in front of Butler, and watching people meander aimlessly around campus from the window of his Hartley dorm room.
	Ali Hodgson Associate Editor Alison Hodgson is a Barnard junior majoring in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures with a concentration in Architecture. Her interest in East Asia centers on China, its development and ever challenging language. In addition to her role at CEAR as an Associate Editor, she is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Barnard Bulletin, Barnard's bi-weekly magazine.
	Winston Kung Associate Editor Winston Kung is nominally from this beautiful city of New York, meaning he's actually spent most of his life after three years old growing up in Hong Kong and Taipei. He is majoring in political science and economics now and is especially interested in the economic takeoff of the Asian tiger states. He also secretly wants to be a chef and open a chain of delicious Taiwanese restaurants throughout the U.S., but is limited by his inability to turn on a stove.
	Christine Kwon Associate Editor Christine Kwon is a third-year B.A. candidate at Columbia College in East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics. Most summers will find her out in some obscure corner of the world failing to absorb any country's language or culture with success while continually making badder her already deteriorating English. Christine enjoys cooking, and, by extension, almost all foods, with the exception of moldy, fermented old milk ? what some like to call 'cheese.'
	Chris Loo Associate Editor Chris Loo is currently a sophomore majoring in EALAC with a disciplinary focus in Chinese Literature. He is also a Head Teacher of Artist Reaching Out (ARO), a program that aims at expanding the extracurricular opportunities available to children in local public schools. He realized he has neither the saintly patience nor the tyrannical authority necessary to be a good teacher in the real world. After forgoing all CC reading to finish Adrian Tomine's "Shortcomings," he now entertains the fantasy of delving back into his High School Cartoonist's roots to become a Graphic Artist in the future.
	Angela Lu Associate Editor Angela Lu is a junior at Columbia University majoring in East Asian Studies. Her academic interests include China's political, sociological, and legal development and China-Japan relations. She is currently an Associate Editor for the Columbia East Asia Review.
	Ashley Lu Associate Editor All the way from beautiful Hong Kong, Ashley Lu has a passion for city life, movies, polaroids, mtv, and everything that is Hong Kong! She enjoys spending time swimming in the pool, and getting lost in museums. Although displaced from her hometown, Ashley is currently enjoying and absorbing New York. She hopes to one day attend the Oscars, and to finally meet Chris Brown.
	Katy Marshall Associate Editor Katy Marshall is a Columbia first-year from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She plans to major in East Asian Languages and Cultures and is particularly interested in Japanese language and politics as well as East Asian history. Katy is also involved with Columbia Model UN and speaks Spanish, French and Italian. In her spare time, she enjoys flying small airplanes.
	John Ng Associate Editor John Ng is a sophomore in Columbia College, probably majoring in History and Economics. His interests include transnational history, maps and a science-fiction television series whose name is much too geeky to divulge. Baklava is his favorite dish, and if he had his way, cheesecake would always be served frozen
	Joyce Ng Associate Editor Born in Hong Kong, Joyce Ng is currently a sophomore majoring in English. An avid art-house film fan, she divides her spare time between watching movies and reading novels. Joyce is also Vice President of the Chinese Students Club.
	Nicole Ng Associate Editor Nicole Ng is a Columbia College sophomore majoring in History. Her interests include the Chinese Diaspora, modern French identity and Southeast Asian street fare. Nicole enjoys humidity, British wit and all things awkward. A native of Singapore, she will tell you that it's not that bad, really.
	Andrew Scheineson Associate Editor Andrew Scheineson, CC'09, has spent more of his life studying China than he cares to admit. As an East Asian Languages and Cultures major in Columbia College, he is thrilled to have a thriving undergraduate East Asian publication on campus, and even more thrilled to be part of it. Andrew is interested in pretty much anything and makes a delightful conversation partner, as long as you don't ask him about Chinese water policy.
	Lizzie Shen Associate Editor Lizzie Shen is a sophomore in the College. She is planning on majoring in Political Science and EALAC, with a concentration in Economics. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Lizzie just moved from Beijing to Shanghai this past summer and is looking forward to exploring the city when she returns to it.
	Kristina Sweet Associate Editor Kristina Sweet is a third year student at the School of General Studies majoring in sociocultural anthropology. A former chef, Kristina has interests in the political economy and anthropology of food, as well as in linguistics, globalization, and development. In addition to her work with CEAR, Kristina is a member of the Cambodia Project student group at Columbia.
	Eric Tang Associate Editor Born in Shanghai and currently residing in New Jersey, Eric Tang came to Columbia with the goal of exploring the scientific, political and economic issues facing the world of today. He plans on using his Columbia education to spread understanding between cultures and bring change to this world. Eric is currently a first year student in the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
	Nicole Wee Associate Editor Nicole Wee is a sophomore in SEAS majoring in Operations Research and minoring in Economics and East Asian Studies. On campus she enjoys volunteering and playing sports. Her interests include music, dance, running, martial arts, and eating extremely spicy food.
	Yuan Yuan Associate Editor Yuan Yuan, a Barnard College sophomore, was born in Shanghai and raised in New York City. She is studying modern Chinese history. When she is not brooding over China's Cultural Revolution, she is most likely doing yoga, eating, or developing black and white film.