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• Shudong Chen is Professor of Humanities at Johnson County Community College (JCCC), Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.A. He received both his master’s (1992) and doctorate (1998) in English from the University of Kansas and has been teaching courses in th...More

  Shudong Chen is Professor of Humanities at Johnson County Community College (JCCC), Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.A. He received both his master’s (1992) and doctorate (1998) in English from the University of Kansas and has been teaching courses in the Humanities at JCCC since 1999. A Chinese native born in Shanghai, he came to the U.S. in 1990. Dr. Chen is the author of Henry James: The Essayist Behind the Novelist (2003) and various articles on cross-cultural dialogue, such as these recent ones, “The Spoils of Poynton: Reading Henry James in the Light of Seng Zhao (Zhao Lun) and William James” (2010), “Harmonizing Voice and Vision of Place in Jazz and Daoism” (2007), “Searching for a Voice of Silence Across Cultures: Does Silence Speak” (2006), “Cultural Diversity and Dynamism in Demand, in Dilemma, in the Mend: Modernity and Multiculturalism in Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei” (2006). For conferences and field studies with grants from National Endowments for the Humanities and Fulbright projects, he travelled in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei in addition to many trips to China since 2000. He was one of five 2003 grants review panelists for National Endowment for the Humanities. On behalf of Chinese New Star Media Group, Toronto, Canada, and in the capacity of Vice President and Chief Consultant on Cultural Issues, Dr. Chen attended 2004 Beijing Municipal Government Conference Commemorating the Third Anniversary of China’s Successful Bid for Hosting the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (July 13-15). Dr. Chen is an active conference presenter and guest speaker on issues concerning cross-cultural dialogue from “Henry James and Tao: Thinking for New Millennium and New Millennium Thinking,” which he presented at Peking University in 2001, to “What would Confucius Say of Abortion, Organ Transplants, Stem Cell Research, and Genetic Engineering: Understanding Bioethical Issues through Confucian Viewpoints,” a three-hour speech he delivered, as guest speaker, at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, Kansas City, Missouri, in 2009. Through his participation in Asian Studies Development Program of East-West Centre, Hawaii, since 2000, Dr. Chen has concentrated his researches on cultural phenomena that reflect subtle but vital differences beneath well-observed similarities and essential but overlooked similarities behind noticeable differences. He also initiated and led his college’s study abroad tours to China in the summers of 2005, 2007, 2008, and a similar trip to Japan in 2009. His 2010 trip includes both Japan and China. Less

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