P. Scott Corbett

Scott P. Corbett received his BA and MA degrees from Kent State University majoring in Modern Chinese history. His Ph.D. was earned at the University of Kansas in American diplomatic history with a focus on American-East Asian relations. In 1987 he published Quiet Passages: The Exchange of Civilians between the United States and Japan during the Second World War. Since then he has published a number of articles on topics ranging from the Chinese immigrants in the United States, the U.S.-Philippine War, to American relations with Laos in the 1970s. More recently his interests have turned to the issue of technology transfers between the Asian and western worlds and the computerization of Asia. He teaches at Oxnard College in California having formerly been a Lecturer at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and a Foreign Expert at the Foreign Studies University of Beijing (Bei Wai).

Publications

Information Technology Diffusion in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives on Policy, Electronic Commerce and Education
Information Technology Diffusion in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives on Policy, Electronic Commerce and Education
P. Scott Corbett, Felix B. Tan, Yuk-Yong Wong. © 1999. 392 pages.
In the last decade, information technology (IT) has advanced so rapidly and its impact has become so pervasive that it is necessary to revisit the issues and challenges arising...