Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1995

associate professor at The City University of New York (Baruch College). Outside of universities, he had worked at the Economics Research Centre in the United States Territory of Guam and headed the Division ofLabour Statistics in the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics in Taiwan. Dr. Tung's present research interests focus on managerial and financial accounting. Articles written by Dr. Tung have appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance and Journal of Business Research. These articles examine financial reporting and cost allocation issues. Dr. Tung was a recipient of the Ernst & Whinney Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Teaching Excellence Award from Baruch College, The City University of New York. He is also a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Maryland Society of Certified Public Accountants. He currently serves as a joint- editor (1994-1995) of the Pacific Accounting Review, ajournal jointly sponsored by New Zealand universities and polytechnics, and as a member of the American Accounting Association's Screening Committee on Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award (1994-1995). Mr. Paul Sui-leung Wong Director, The Chinese University Press Paul Wong graduated with a BA degree from the University of Hong Kong; he also holds diplomas in management studies and advertising. Before joining academia, he was a management consultant specializing in marketing and strategic planning. His management experience spans advertising, public relations, publishing, broadcasting, retailing, and consumer marketing. Mr. Wong had worked for Far East (Ketchum), Marklin, and Leo Burnett before founding his own advertising agency in 1974. He then took two years off in 1977 to do his MBA at Stanford University, and subsequently joined DDB for three years, helping them establish a presence in Asia. Mr. Wong then left the advertising business and went on to hold key management positions with major media groups such as TVB (Controller, PR and International Affairs), TVEI (Group Manager), Hong Kong Economic Journal (Managing Director), Time Inc. Magazines (General Manager, Asia) and TVBI (Assistant General Manager). As a professional manager, Paul Wong has turned around several companies, the most notable being Fotomax in 1988. He is also the author ofthree books, and a scriptwriter/presenter of a series of executive training video cassettes. He joined The Chinese University in January 1995. Dr. Gordon C. Mathews Lecturer in Anthropology Gordon Mathews was bom in Illinois, USA, and grew up in Alaska. While studying at Yale University in the mid-seventies, he left college for a year to pursue an unsuccessful career as a novelist and jazz musician. He then returned to college and got his BA in American studies from Yale, and MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the School for International Training. He taught English in Mexico for a while. In May 1980 Dr. Mathews went to Sapporo, Japan, where he cofounded and ran a school that taught English to adult Japanese students. He also utilized this time for studying the Japanese language and culture. In 1983, he got his teaching license from theTozan-ry û school of shakuhachi (i.e. the Japanese bamboo flute), and in the same year he married Yoko Miyakawa of Sapporo. In 1987 Dr. Mathews began graduate training in cultural anthropology at Cornell University, and between 1989 and 1991 conducted fieldwork on 'sensesof what makes life worth living in Japan and the United States': intensively interviewing 50 Japanese in a northern Japanese city and 50 Americans in a western American city about their work, family, hopes, dreams, religious beliefs, and Profiles 37