Frank RichterFRANK-JÜRGEN RICHTER has lived, worked and traveled extensively throughout Asia. Fluent in Mandarin and Japanese as well as his native German, he holds a doctorate from Stuttgart (Germany) University, has studied business administration and mechanica engineering, and done other postgraduate work at Tsukuba University, Tokyo. Dr. Richter has written articles for various professional and scholarly journals, authored two books, and is the editor of a previous book for Quorum, Business Networks in Asia: Promises, Doubts, and Perspectives (1999), and a forthcoming book, The Asian Economic Catharsis (2000). Read More Read Less