A group of Japanese researchers have issued an emergency appeal for a prominent Chinese scholar at Hokkaido University of Education, who they say has been uncontactable since he left for China to attend a family funeral in June.Friends and colleagues have not been able to get in touch with Yuan Keqin, a professor of East Asian political history, for over six months, according to the appeal released Tuesday by Hokkaido University professor Akihiro Iwashita and other researchers.Yuan, who was born in China's Jilin Province in 1955 and studied law at Hitotsubashi University graduate school in …READ FULL ARTICLE
