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Henry is currently working towards a Masters in Management Science and Engineering. Prior to returning to Stanford, where he also graduated from in 2000 with a B.A. in Economics, he spent several years in the Singapore government doing economic development through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) promotion. n the past two years, he has also interned in HP and Avaya. enry is fluent in Mandarin, and is learning to speak some semblance of Korean. ike many others. Henry is strongly committed to FACES because he has witnessed so many life-long friendships forged within FACES. He is also passionate about FACES exhilarating pursuit of intellectual and cultural understanding. enry has a keen interest in business; American politics; Chinese culture and poetry; and ancient history, especially of the Chinese, Greek, and Roman sort. e also loves the Arts, traveling, playing Frisbee, snowboarding, and sailing. Upon graduation, he hopes embark in a career in general management or supply chain management in either side of the Pacific. His long-term career aspiration is to lead a business unit in a leading multinational company or to be a cultured entrepreneur. He loves people, and his dream is to incorporate the best of the East and West to create a dynamic, humanistic and lasting corporate culture.

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Yuanxin Zhou is majoring in Political Science, minoring in East Asian studies, and pursuing a coterminal Masters degree in Sociology. Born in Shanghai, China, the city she calls home, she has lived in New York, San Diego and Sydney, Australia. Yuanxin has interned in the Shanghai office of the U.S.-based international law firm White & Case LLP, during which she worked on mergers and acquisitions and IP-related cases for international corporations breaking into the China market. This summer, she is working at the International Broadcasting Center for Shanghai Media Group as a journalist and translator. On-campus, besides being an active member of FACES, Yuanxin has also been in involved in the Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, the Asian American Students Association, coordinated the AANSOC Big Sib/Lil Sib Program, and works at the Stanford Law School. She plans to attend law school directly after graduation, and hopes to work with emerging corporate legal institutions in Shanghai as a career. Yuanxin is fluent in both Mandarin and Shanghainese.

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Jessica Angelson is a senior majoring in East Asian studies with a particular interest in China-Southeast Asia relations. She hopes to coterm in International Policy Studies focusing on that interest, if only to stay at Stanford longer. Last year Jessica was responsible for programming during the day themed ÒPolitical Partnerships and Strategic Maneuvering. After completing her first freshman and sophomore years at Oberlin College, Jessica took a year off from school during which she worked at The Asia Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. During that time she also gained her TEFL diploma and taught English in Guangxi province for six months. JessicaÕs other interests include classical dance and constitutional law. She is working on finding time for it all.

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Wing-yan is a first year MBA student at Stanford GSB. Most recently, she completed a research project on underpricing factors affecting initial public offerings in Hong Kong as a Fulbright Fellow. Through her research experience in Hong Kong, she has gained a strong understanding of the economic and regulatory landscape of Asian financial markets. Prior to her experience abroad, she interned with JPMorganChase for three summers. She was also a 2004 U.S. FACES delegate. In addition to her interest in finance, Wing-yan is also dedicated to contributing to high school education in her community. She has served as a mentor at high schools in Phoenix, AZ and Redwood City, CA, taught English as a second language in Hong Kong and worked as an instructor at The Princeton Review for four years. She graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Finance and Management in 2004.

Wing-Yan Choi

Min is a first year MBA student at Stanford GSB. He previously worked as a consultant for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Shanghai, China for four years. His engagements span across different industries including healthcare, telecom, automotive, consumer goods. Through helping multinational companies, State-owned-enterprise as well as private companies, Min gained a broad perspective of how business runs in China. His passion is traveling he ventured to different parts of China.

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Born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles, Shawn Chen is a junior majoring in Public Policy and pursing a MasterÕs in Management Science & Engineering. In the future, he plans to attend law school. At Stanford, Shawn is a research assistant at the Hoover Institute studying both California and U.S. policy and elections and an Oral Communications Tutor teaching effective presentation skills mostly to PWR 2 students. He is also on the Stanford Equestrian Team. Shawn is particularly interested in the economic development of China in the coming years and the impact of economic liberalization on ChinaÕs current political regime. Shawn also has a keen interest in cross-strait relations and the role of the United States in mitigating the tension.

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Jeffrey is a senior majoring in Economics with a particular interest in East Asian affairs. Born and raised in Beijing, he came to the U.S. at the age of 13. Besides three years of involvement in FACES, Jeffrey has been the President of the Stanford Pre-Business Association, sang in the Stanford University Singers and worked in departments such as the Center for East Asian Studies. He has also held past internships at the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry in Tokyo, Morgan Stanley in San Francisco, and Bain & Company in Hong Kong. After graduation in December 2005, Jeffrey will return to Beijing for a couple of months before starting his full-time job as an Associate Consultant at Bain in Hong Kong. Jeffrey is fluent in Mandarin and Japanese and proficient in Cantonese.

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Mamei is a senior majoring in Human Biology with a concentration in Astrobiology. he was born in Anhui and came to the U.S. at the age of five, and is currently living in the great state of Texas. side from FACES, Mamei has also been involved with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, the Stanford Wind Ensemble, and astrobiology research for NASA Ames Research center. amei is interested in U.S.-China relations, as well as multicultural interactions throughout the world. he studied in Florence this past spring, where she was able to observe Italian-American and Italian-Chinese interactions, two (surprisingly) very different things. he hopes to go to law school after some time off, and practice international law in the future. n her spare time, Mamei enjoys reading, making music, shopping, and conversations about random things. he is fluent in Mandarin, Italian, and knows some French.

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Bo is a sophmore from China. Born in Wuxi, a small city near Shanghai, he had most of his education in China. After finishing his secondary education in Wuxi Big Bridge Experimental High School, he went to study in Singapore on full scholarship. Now he is pursuing a degree in physics on a government scholarship. Though not avidly interested in international relations, he appreciates the effort made by FACES to promote understanding between students from both China and U.S. He believes FACES' work will have a lasting effect on the relationship between the two countries.

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Liang Dong is a Senior and co-terminal M.A. candidate in Cultural and Social Anthropology. In her third year with the organization, Liang is currently the Co-Director of Campus Expansion. Liang has also worked as the Director of Conference Programming and on day programming committees for both the Stanford and Beijing conferences. Born in Beijing and a native Mandarin speaker, Liang is interested gender, class formation, and transnationalism in contemporary China. She wrote her senior honors thesis on the experiences of women migrant workers who are employed in the domestic service sector. Currently, she is writing her M.A. thesis on migrant men who work as security guards in new housing communities in urban Shanghai. In addition to the FACES, Liang is also a member of the Stanford Debate Society. In her spare time, Liang likes to travel, play ping-pong, and read about celebrity gossip.

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In 2005-2006, Max will be taking the postions of Co-Director of Human Resources and Campus Outreach. Together with his Co-Director Liang Dong, the two hope to achieve a wider recognition of the FACES name on Stanford campus and to make sure that positive team spirit is maintained within the group. He is a junior double majoring in Economics and East Asian Studies, with a specific interest in Contemporary Japanese Literature and its relation to social change in Japan. He is currently learning the art of chestnut farming and web-design as part of his internship at Masuichi-Ichimura Co. in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Coming to the United States from China in 1992, Ben Wang incorporates his native culture into his current perspectives; exploring the principles of life by studying many philosophers ranging from Plato to Confucius. Through a summer program called Quest, Ben gained great appreciation for reflection, openness and positive attitudes. These qualities combined with his sensibility make him a trustworthy friend. He often takes time out of his busy schedule to meditate on the challenges in life such as school, relationships and self-improvement.A senior biology major at Stanford, he works in a research lab in the medical school and volunteers at the emergnecy room. Outside of school he has a budding interest in photography, seeing it as a way to visually understand his surroundings. He also enjoys running, swimming, deep conversations, and listening to inspirational music. Ben hopes to return one day to China as a physician and use his knowledge and skills to improve the lives of the Chinese people.

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A New York native, Lige Shao graduated from Stanford in 2004 with a B.A. in International Relations. After graduation, she studied Chinese with Princeton in Beijing and worked for the American Chamber of Commerce-PRC. Previously, she interned at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York and did a comparative research project on Sino-European vs. Sino-American relations while in Paris. Lige has been with FACES since its conception and was Vice President in 2003. Currently, she is a Master's student in East Asian Studies at Stanford studying cultural preservation, development, and modernization. This summer, she is working as the editor of the weekly English language page of the Beijing Youth Daily, the second largest newspaper in China. She enjoys martial arts (wushu, Shaolin), writing, and traveling and speaks fluent Mandarin and French

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Seamon is a sophomore planning to major in Electrical Engineering and pursue a masters in Management Science and Engineering. He was born in New York City and went to middle and high school in Guangzhou, China, where he gained good command of Mandarin and Cantonese, but forgot his English. Seamon hopes to apply his unique experience, knowledge and skills to bridge the U.S. and China in the future, probably in the realm of business. In his free time, Seamon tries hard to pursue his plethora of interests ranging from playing basketball to gazing at maps to pondering about U.S./China relations in the coming years.

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