Dear colleagues and friends,

We would like to invite you to submit a manuscript to our forthcoming 2008 edition (Volume 4) of Academic Perspective (ISSN 1936-1246), an annual e-journal published by the Chinese Scholars Association in Southern California (CSASC).

If you are not already aware of this journal, here are some salient features:

- Our journal attracts a significant quantity of readers from both the U.S. and China.

- All of our journal articles have open access and are freely available to all internet users.

- Authors retain copyrights to their article and are welcome to re-use it as they wish.

For further information on the journal, please visit the following pages in our website:

http://csasc.org/pages/journal.php

http://csasc.org/pages/journal2007.php

Authors are encouraged to submit reviews, original empirical work, commentaries on their own work or their colleagues’ work, or on current and future developments in their field. Your manuscript can be in either Chinese or English, with a maximum length of 25 double-spaced pages. The submission deadline is extended to July 20. 

The journal has two sections: Humanity & Social Science section and Science & Engineering section. If you are interested in submitting to the former, please contact Dr. Qian Lu, the Editor-in-Chief for this section, at lvqian2000@yahoo.com. If you are interested in submitting to the latter, please contact Dr. Chongwu Zhou, the Editor-in-Chief for this section, at chongwuz@usc.edu.

Regards,

Editors-in-Chief:

Dr. Chongwu Zhou (Science & Engineering), USC, chongwuz@usc.edu

Dr. Qian Lu (Humanity & Social Science), UCLA, lvqian2000@yahoo.com

Editorial Board Members:

Dr. Yong-Gang Li, USC, ygli@usc.edu

Dr. Lianlian Lin, Cal Poly Pomona, llin2@csupomona.edu

Dr. Kylie Hsu, Cal State L.A., prof.kyliehsu@gmail.com

Dr. Bing Huang, UCI, bhuang6560@gmail.com

Dr. Daniel Kwong, National Committee on US-China Relations, ghh_dwk@sbcglobal.net