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	George H.W. Bush, Chief of the U.S. Liason office in the People's Republic of China from 1974 to 1976, an era of market reforms and loosening of Communist power, and President of the United States during the turbulent Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
	William J. Perry, U.S. Secretary of Defense during the years immediately following Tiananmen, who strove to improve U.S./China relations while defending the sovereignty of Taiwan
	Jonathan D. Spence, one of the world's foremost scholars of Chinese history and author of The Search for Modern China, now a standard textbook on Chinese history.
	Annping Chin, leading historian, expert on Confucianism, Taoism, and the Chinese intellectual tradition, and author of several books on Chinese history.