Daily Briefing - Wednesday September 22, 2010

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Michael Hunt is the Everett H. Emerson Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in U.S. foreign relations and international and global history. His books include The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance; Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy; and Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968. 

Perry Link holds the Chancellorial Chair for Innovative Teaching across Disciplines is also a professor of camparative Literature and Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside. He is one of the world's foremost experts on China’s language, culture, and people. He has translated many Chinese stories, writings and poems into English. He edited the "Tiananmen Papers," a collection of documents leaked by a high-level Chinese official that helped chronicle the events that led up to and followed the pro-reform student protests that were brutally quashed in June 1989. In 1996, the Chinese government blacklisted Perry Link as a result of that publication.

Toby Miller is chair of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. After working in broadcasting, banking, and civil service, Toby Miller became an academic in the late 1980s, and went on to become one of the world’s leading analysts of popular culture, media, and their connection to the politics of everyday life. His books include Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media, Globalization and Sport, Sportsex, Global Hollywood, Cultural Citizenship: How Conservatives and Neoliberals Captured the Cultural Politics of Television and How We Can Take It Back, Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention, and his latest, Television Studies: The Basics.