CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE
March 2015
MING XIA
（夏明）
Professor (tenured) of Political Science
The City University of New York
The Graduate Center & the College of Staten Island
Homepage: www.drmingxia.org
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CORRESPONDENCE
Work Address:
Dept. of Pol. Sci. and Global Affairs
City University of New York
The College of Staten Island
Staten Island, NY 10314
Phone: (718) 982-3197
Fax: (718) 982-2888
Ming.Xia@csi.cuny.edu
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Department of Political Science
The Doctoral Faculty
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212)817-8670
MXia@gc.cuny.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science (sub-fields: Comparative Politics, International Relations, and American
Politics), May 23, 1997, Temple University (Philadelphia, PA), 1991-97
Master of Law in International/Comparative Politics, July 11, 1988, Fudan University (Shanghai, China),
1985-88
Bachelor of Law in International Politics, July 15, 1985, Fudan University (Shanghai, China), 1981-85
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
Full Professor, the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York, from January 1, 2007 to
the present
Professor in the Doctoral Program of Political Science, the CUNY Graduate Center, from spring 2011 to
the present
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, the Asian Research Institute, the National University of Singapore,
from May to August 2012.
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, the East Asian Institute, the National University of Singapore, from
January to June 2011.
Visiting Professor, the College of History and Culture, Jishou University, Hunan, China, June-July, 2007.
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Visiting Professor, the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai,
China, May-June, 2007.
Associate Professor with tenure, City University of New York, the College of Staten Island, from Sept. 1,
2002 to Dec. 31, 2006.
Visiting Research Fellow, the East Asian Institute, the National University of Singapore, from July 1 to
December 31, 2004
Asian Policy Studies Fellow (Luce Fellow), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and
the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, the George Washington University, Washington, DC, from
August 2003 to May 2004.
Associate Professor (early promotion), CUNY-the College of Staten Island, from January 1, 2002 to
August 31, 2002.
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), CUNY-the College of Staten Island, from Fall 1997 to Fall 2001.
Lecturer (part-time), Department of Political Science, Temple University, from 1991 to 1995.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, Fall 1993.
Assistant Professor (full-time), Department of International Politics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China,
from Fall 1988 to Fall 1991
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
The People’s Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance, London
UK and New York: Routledge, 2008, Paperback edition, 2011, pp. 320 (Included into “The Library
of Legislative Studies,” under the General Editorship of Lord Philip Norton).
The Dual Developmental State: Development Strategy and Institutional Arrangements for China's
Transition, Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, USA: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000, pp. 272.
Reviewed by China Information, China Journal, and China Review International.
Books in Chinese
The Empire of the Red Sun: Individual Choices under the Collapsing Dictatorship [紅太陽帝國：專制
崩潰下的個人選擇], New York and Hong Kong: The Mirror Books, forthcoming.
Political Venus: From Nothing under My Name to Chinese Democracy [政治維納斯：從一無
所有到中國民主], Hong Kong: Morning Bell Press, January, 2012, pp. 426.
Edited Volumes
Two special issues on the Falun Gong (Co-edited with Shiping Hua):
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"The Battle between the Chinese Government and the Falun Gong," The Chinese Law and
Government, Sept./Oct. issue, 1999, pp. 104, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
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"Falun Gong: Qigong, Code of Ethics and Religion," Nov./Dec. issue, 1999, pp. 102, Armonk,
New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Edited Book in Chinese
The Crown of Thorn: Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel Peace Prize [自由荊冠：劉曉波和諾貝爾和平獎]
(Hong Kong: Morning Bell Publishing House, 2010; in Chinese, co-edited with Chen Kuide), the
Korean version is forthcoming.
Articles
“Innovations in China’s Local Governance: an Assessment,” EAI Background Briefing No. 644, the East
Asian Institute, the National University of Singapore, July 2011, pp. 15.
“New Organizational Formations of Contemporary Organized Crime in China: Perspectives from the
State, the Market, and Networks,” Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 17, no. 54, 2008, pp. 1-23
(the lead article). The Chinese translation is forthcoming from The Study of Crime (Fanzui Yanjiu) in
Shanghai, China.
“Assessing and Explaining the Resurgence of China’s Criminal Underworld,” Global Crime, vol. 7, no.
2, May 2006, pp. 151-175 (the lead article).
“Mounting Challenges to Governance in China: Surveying Collective Protestors, Religious Sects, and
Criminal Organizations,” co-authored with Jae-Ho Chung, Harry Hongyi Lai, The China Journal,
No. 56, July 2006, pp. 1-31 (the lead article). Included to Politics of Modern China, edited by
Yongnian Zheng, Yiyi Lu, Lynn T. White III (London: Routledge, 2009).
“The Resurgence of Organized Crime in China: An Assessment,” EAI Working Papers, No. 122, Nov.
21, 2005, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, pp. 16.
“The Criminal-Political Nexus in China: An Assessment,” in “Special Report: Active Society in
Formation: Environmentalism, Labor and the Underworld in China,” No. 124, Sept. 2004, the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, pp.12-18.
"Political Contestation and the Emergence of Provincial People's Congresses as Power Players in Chinese
Politics: A Network Explanation," Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 9, no. 24 (2000), pp. 185214.
"China's National People's Congress: Institutional Transformation in the Process of Regime Transition
(1978-1998)," The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 4, no. 4 (Winter 1998); also appeared in Philip
Norton, Lord of Louth, and Nizam Ahmed, ed., Parliament in Asia (London: Frank Cass, 1999), pp.
103-130.
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"From Camaraderie to the Cash Nexus: economic reforms, social stratification and their political
consequences in China," Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 8, no. 21 (1999), pp. 345-358.
"Information Efficiency, Organization Development, and the Institutional Linkages of the Provincial
People's Congresses in China,” Journal of Legislative Studies vol. 3, no. 3 (Fall 1997), pp. 10-38.
"US-PRC Trade Related Negotiations in the 1990s: Two-Level Game Analysis and Explanations,” Issues
& Studies, vol. 32, no. 4 (April 1996), pp. 60-88.
Chapters in Books
“Media Control as Stability Maintenance: The Case of Sichuan Earthquake” in Mughals,
Mandarins, and Messengers: Media at Work in India and China (edited by Robin Jeffrey et
al), New Delhi, India: Sage, 2015, forthcoming.
“Communist Oligarchy and Oligarchic Transition in China,” in Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne,
ed., China’s Transition from Communism: New Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 3455, forthcoming.
“Innovations in China's Local Governance: An Assessment,” in Gungwu Wang and Yongnian
Zheng, ed., China: Development and Governance (Singapore, World Scientific Publishing
Co., 2012).
“The Chinese Underclass and Organized Crime as a Ladder of Social Ascent,” in Siu-Keung
Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky, ed., Marginalization in China: Recasting
Minority Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 95-121.
"China's National People's Congress: Institutional Transformation in the Process of Regime Transition
(1978-1998)," in Philip Norton, Lord of Louth, and Nizam Ahmed, ed., Parliament in Asia (London:
Frank Cass, 1999), pp. 103-130.
“‘Government by the People, Chinese Style’—An Inquiry into the System of Review and Assessment in
the Chinese Sub-national People’s Congresses,” in New Development in Local Democracy and
Decentralization in East Asia, edited by Chung-Si Ahn (Seoul, Korea: The Seoul National University
Press, 2005), pp. 297-336.
Other Writings
The New York Times’ “China Rises” website project (2006-08) at:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/college/collegespecial10/coll-chinarises.html.
Prisoner of the State Roundtable Discussion (Moderator: Andrew Nathan; Panelists: Bao Pu, Gao
Wenqian, Hu Ping, He Qinglian and Xia Ming), China Rights Forum , No. 3, 2009.
Book Reviews
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Review Essay: See No Evil: A Tailored Reality? A Review of Selling Sex Overseas by Ko-lin Chin and
James Finchenauer, CUNY Forum: Asian American /Asian Studies, forthcoming.
Book review: Chinese Politics and Government: Power, ideology, and organization (New York and
London: Routledge, 2013), forthcoming, Journal of Chinese Political Science.
Review Essay: “Dying in Dignity Is the Last Human Right: On Reading Wenguang Huang’s The Little
Red Guard,” China Rights Forum, July, 2012.
Book review: China’s Elite Politics: Governance and Democratization by Bo Zhiyue (Singapore: World
Scientific, 2010), The China Journal, July 2012.
Book review: Inside China’s Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People’s Republic by YE
Zicheng (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011. xii, 301 pp), The Journal
of Asian Studies, .Vol. 70:4, November 2011, pp. 1154-1156.
Book Review: “The National People’s Congress of China by JIANG Jinsong (Beijing: Foreign
Languages Press, 2003. Pp. iii+560), The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (Autumn
2005), pp.119-121.
Creative Works
History Advisor and Translator for Documentary Movie, “Dream against the World: Mu Xin,” Ropa
Vieja Films and Half Mile Hill Productions, produced and directed by Francisco Bello and Tim
Sternberg, 2015.
Co-Producer for HBO Documentary, “China’s Unnatural Disaster, The Tears of Sichuan Provinces”
(2009, 40 minutes), Producer (In collaboration with Jon Alpert, Matthew O’Neil, Peter Kwong and
Michelle Mi), released to theatres and broadcast on May 7 and 12, 2009, HBO, nominated for 82nd
Oscar Award in Documentary (Short) category; the Golden Eagle Award winner of 2011 CINE
Award.
Book Chapters in Chinese (Selected)
“Globalization and Global Issues” in Wang Jianwei, ed., Theory of International Relations (Beijing:
Renmin University Press, 2010[“第十三章：全球化和跨国问题研究”，王建伟主编，《国际关
系学》北京：中国人民大学出版社， 2010 年 10 月。]
“The Infiltration of Organized Criminal Forces into the People’s Congresses in China ” [人大民主建设
如何防控黑恶势力的侵蚀], in Chen Mingming and He Junzhi, ed., Institutions and Structures for
Chinese Democracy [ 中 国 民 主 的 制 度 结 构 ](Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press, 2008). Also
appeared in Fudan Research Center for Election and People’s Congress (www.fepc.org.cn), Jan.
11, 2009.
“Hu Yaobang Confronting State Crimes” [胡耀邦直面国家罪错], in Su Shaozhi, Chen Yizi, and Gao
Wenqian, eds., Hu Yaobang in the Heart of People [人民心中的胡耀邦] (Hong Kong and New
York: Mirror Books, 2006), pp. 289-292.
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“Taiwan's Parliamentary System in the Process of Transition” [转型过程中的台湾议会系统], in Lin
Gang and Chen Weixing, eds., Prospects for Cross-Taiwan Strait Development [《台海两岸的发展
前景》] (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Social Sciences Publishing House, 2000), pp. 28-51.
“British Governmental System” and “French Governmental System” (英国政府体制、法国政府体制，
10 Chapters) in Cao Peilin, ed., Comparative Governments: Western Europe [曹沛霖、徐宗士主
编，《比较政府体制》](Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 1993), pp. 29-63; pp. 137-158; pp. 159280.
“Social Modernization” [社会现代化], Chapter 16 in LIU Haoxin, ed., Introduction to Sociology [刘豪
兴主编，《社会学概论》] (Beijing: The Higher Education Publishing House, 1992), pp. 481-519.
Chinese Articles (Selected)
“New Organizational Formations of Contemporary Organized Crime in China: Perspectives from the
State, the Market, and Networks,” Chinese Criminology Review，No. 4, 2013, pp. 97-108 [“中国有组
织犯罪的组织形态：以国家、市场与网络为视角”，《犯罪研究》, 2013年第四期，第97至108页]
“Assessing and Explaining the Resurgence of China’s Criminal Underworld” [夏明：评估并解释中国
犯罪性黑社会的复苏], “孙冶方公共政策研究网”（www.sunyefang.org），2009.11.07.
"Organized Crime and the Olympic Games: Forms of Activity and Policies for Prevention, "[奥运期间有
组织犯罪的活动方式和防控措施], Journal of Jiangsu Police Officer College [江苏警官学院学
报], Vol.23, No.4, July, 2008, pp. 139-145.
“Globalization and Transnational Issues,” [全球化与全球事务]in Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer
2008); included to Wang Jianwei, ed., New Frontiers in Western International Studies [Xifang Guoji
Guanxi Lilun Qianyan], Beijing: Beijing University Press, forthcoming.
“Four Levels of Analysis in Comparative Political Systems” in Research and Discussion, Shanghai,
No. 3, 1993, Co-author (王伯军、夏明，“比较政治制度的四个层面”，上海《探索与争鸣》
1993年第三期 )
“On Leisure”[论闲暇]，Research and Discussion [《探索与争鸣》] (Shanghai, No. 3, 1991), pp. 5659.
“Use Rights to Restrict Power” [用权利制约权力], Social Science [《社会科学》] (Shanghai, No. 6,
1988). Also Adopted by Digest of Legal System [《法制文摘》] (Taiyuan, No. 11, 1988), pp. 2325.
“Civil Service: Symbol of Modern State” [文官制度：现代国家标志]，World Economic Herald [《世
界经济导报》] (Shanghai, Jan. 11, 1988).
“Origin of the Western Democracy and Its Enlightenment” [西方民主制发源及启示], Tianjin Social
Science [《天津社会科学》] (Tianjin, No. 2, 1988), pp. 27-32.
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“Melody of Political Modernization” [ 政 治 现 代 化 的 主 旋 律 ] Social Science and Philosophy
Information [《社会科学和哲学通讯》] (Shanghai, No. 3, 1988).
Translation (Selected)
James Scott, “Introduction to a General Theory on Corruption,” In Wang Huning, ed., Corruption and
Anti-corruption (Shanghai: People's Publishing House, 1990)，pp. 114-136 [王沪宁主编，《腐败
与反腐败》，上海人民出版社，1990年版，第114至136页].
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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS (including grants)
CSI-CUNY Presidential Release Time Award, Spring 2014.
“Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals” in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 lists, chosen by Boxun.com
news agency and Zhengzuo Jingyou Institute.
Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, May to August, 2012, the Asian Research Institute, the National
University of Singapore.
Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, January-June, 2011, the East Asian Institute, the National University
of Singapore.
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Awards, 2008-2009, 2010-2011, The City University of New York
Honored member, 63rd (2009) and 64th (2010) Editions of Marquis Who's Who in America.
Honored member, Montclair Who’s Who in Collegiate Faculty (2008-09)
The OYCF (Overseas Young Chinese Forum) Teaching Fellowship, 2007.
The U.S. China Law Society Fellowship, 2005-2006, from U.S. China Law Society, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Semi-Finalist for the Public Intellectuals Program (PIP) (2005-2007), The National Committee on United
States-China Relations.
The Research Fellowship, the East Asian Institute, the National University of Singapore, July 1-December 31, 2004.
The Research Fellowship (Luce Fellowship) of Asian Policy Studies Program, the Woodrow Wilson
Center for International Scholars, August 2003—May 2004 to work at the Wilson Center and the
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
The Scholarly Incentive Fellowship, the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York,
Spring and Fall 2004.
“Salute to Scholar” Certificate of Honor, the City University of New York, November 2003.
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The Presidential Fellowship, Semester of Fall 2003, the College of Staten Island, the City University of
New York.
The CSI (College of Staten Island) Dolphin Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement by a Member
of the Faculty, 2002-2003, the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York, May 2003.
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award, 2003-2004, The City University of New York.
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award, 2001-2002, The City University of New York
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Two-Year Award, 1999-2001, The City University of New York.
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award, 1998-1999, The City University of New York.
Presidential Award of Reassigned Time for Junior Faculty, 1998-1999, Division of Humanities and
Social Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY.
The Bernard C. Watson Award for the Best Dissertation, 1997, Temple University Graduate School.
(Quote: "This award is presented for the most distinguished doctoral dissertation which both
exemplifies excellence and makes a significant contribution to the fields of education or the social
science.")
University Dissertation Fellowship, 1996; Teaching Assistantships, 1991-95; all Temple University.
APSA Travel Grant Awards, 1995, 1996, the American Political Science Association.
Travel Grant Awards, 94-95, 95-96, Center for East Asian Studies, Temple University.
The Center for East Asian Studies Travel Award, 1996, the University of Chicago.
Excellent Student Honors (top 5%), 1983-84, 1984-85, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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PROJECT IN PROGRESS
Book project: China at the Epicenter: Calamity, Protest, and Crisis Management in China.
Book project: Trilogy of Chinese Criminal Underworld (Part I: State and the Criminal Underworld in
China; Part II: Markets and the Criminal Underworld in China; Part III: The Chinese Triads in Global
Perspective (This project has been funded by the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, the Presidential
Fellowship at the College of Staten Island—CUNY, Luce Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Center,
Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University, East Asian Institute at the
National University of Singapore).
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COURSES OFFERED
Introductory Level:
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Pol 100: American Government
Cor 100: The United States: Institutions, Ideas and Issues
Pol 103: Understanding the Political World: An introduction to Political Science
Comparative Politics:
Pol 240: Comparative Government
Pol 256: East Asian Politics
Pol 342: Comparative Politics of Developing Countries
Pol 353: China: Politics and Foreign Relations
International Relations:
Pol 260: International Politics
Pol 261: International Organizations
Pol 251: International Political Economy
Pol 365: Current American Foreign Policy
Pol 394: CUNY World Affairs Internship
Pol 310: Political Sociology
Women Studies and International Studies
WMS 203/INT 203: Gender and Contemporary World: East Asian Experience
Macaulay Honor College Course
Hon 206: The Non-U.S. Experience: Social Sciences (Women and Development in Pacific Asia)
Graduate Course: International Political Economy (The Graduate Center, The City University of New
York)
Graduate Seminar: Comparative Politics: Theory and Method (at Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Graduate Seminar: Globalization and Its Critics (at Jishou University, Hunan, China)
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SERVICES IN THE UNIVERSITY
Member, The Faculty Advisory Committee (2013 to present)
Chairperson, CUNY Pathways, Political Science Committee (May 2012 to 2013)
Faculty Center Advisory Committee, the College of Staten Island, CUNY, 2011 to present.
Contributor to The New York Times’ “China Rises” website project (2006) (author of the General
Introduction and Section on Political Governance, 34 single-spaced pages,
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/college/collegespecial10/coll-chinarises.html).
The College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, CUNY-College of Staten Island, Sept. 2005 to 2007.
The Institutional Planning Committee (Fall 2001 to Fall 2004), Chaired by the College President, CUNYCollege of Staten Island.
The Strategic Planning Committee (2001-2002; 2005-present), CUNY-College of Staten Island.
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Member of the Advisory Committee, CUNY-China Exchange Program (1999-present), City University of
New York.
The International Studies Advisory Committee (1997-present), CUNY-College of Staten Island.
The Department Curriculum Committee (October 1999-2001), CUNY-College of Staten Island.
Reviewer, PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Review Panel (1999), 2007, 2009.
Project Director for “Shanghai Emerging Leaders Training Program” (2001-2007) sponsored by
Shanghai Education Center for Administrators and hosted by the College of Staten Island, the City
University of New York.
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SERVICES IN THE CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL AND GRADUATE EDUCATION
Supervisor for Joselyn Muhleisen’s and Barry Mutdaco’s dissertations, in progress, the Doctoral Program
of the Department of Political Science, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Reader for Muhammad Kabir’s dissertation, “Asymmetric Alliances: Domestic Political Imperatives and
Small States’ Alignments with Great Powers,” in progress, the Department of Political Science,
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Examiner and Committee member for Bann Seng Tan’s doctoral dissertation, “Sword vs. Shield: The
Impact of Democracy on Rivalry,” 2013, the Department of Political Science, Graduate Center of the
City University of New York.
First Reader for Michael G. Kulma’s Doctoral Dissertation, “China and Multilateral Institutions: The
Decision to Join” (Advisor: Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner), the Department of Political Science,
Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
External Reader for Ju Wu’s Doctoral Dissertation, “Reforming Mao’s State: The Administrative Side of
China’s Market Transition” (Advisor: Benedict Stavis), the Department of Political Science, Temple
University, April 8, 2005.
Faculty Opponent in the Doctoral Dissertation Committee for the Dissertation Defense of Mr. Oscar
Almén, “Authoritarianism Constrained: The Role of Local People’s Congresses in China” (Advisor:
Michael Schulz), the Department of Peace and Development, Gotöborg University, Sweden, May 27,
2005.
External Reader for Lee Hoey Simon’s Master Thesis, “The Function of Interest Aggregation of the
National Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference” (Advisor: Shaoguang Wang), the
Department of Political Science and Public Administration, the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
April 2003.
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APPEARANCE ON MEDIA AND QUOTES IN NEWS (More than one thousand interviews
since 2001 are listed on my website at http://www.drmingxia.org )
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