Irwin Abrams Editor & Author

Irwin Abrams is considered the leading authority world-wide on the history of the Nobel Peace Prize and Editor for three Volumes of Nobel Peace Lectures. He is currently the Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he taught European history and International Relations for more than three decades, administered international programs in Europe and consulted with U.S. governmental agencies. Wang Gung-Wu is former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University and the Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. A noted authority on Chinese history and civilization, he has written or edited more than 20 books dealing with Asia, particularly China.