Richard Louis Edmonds is Visiting Professor in the Geographical Studies Program and Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. His interests focus around historical geography and environmental studies. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996-2002. Dr. Edmonds has written extensively on China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong. He is the author of Macau (Clio Press, 1989), Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection (Routledge, 1994), and has edited or co-edited: Reappraising Republican China (Oxford, 2000), Managing The Chinese Environment (Oxford, 2000), The People's Republic of China After 50 Years (Oxford, 2000), and Taiwan in the Twentieth Century: A Retrospective View (Cambridge, 2001). Currently, Dr. Edmonds is co-editing a book on environmental NGOs in China and working on environmental problems in China.