About Me

B.A., Chinese & Japanese Literaure, San Francisco State University
M.A., International Relations, University of Oregon
Ph.D., Asian Studies, University of Arizona
SDSU faculties of Asian Studies and History

Biographical Information

While pursuing his degrees, he lived and carried out research in Taiwan, Japan, and Germany. Upon completion of his final degree, Dr. Wittenborn took three months driving the "Overland India" route from London to New Delhi, India, including a two-week stay in Afghanistan. Dr. Wittenborn first turned to business and became a private entrepreneur in the travel and tourism field. This led him to start his own company which required extensive travel in Asia throughout the 1980s, including a two-year residence aboard a Yangtze River cruise ship in China. Since 1988, Dr. Wittenborn has been fully engaged in university teaching and research. He has taught at Hawaii Pacific College in Honolulu, and locally at UC San Diego, Cal State San Marcos, and the University of San Diego.

Scholarly Interests
—Neo-Confucianism
—Traditional and Modern Southeast Asia
—Indonesia
—Burma and Malaysia
—Trade and Development in the Indian Ocean
—Human Rights in Asia
Research
—Arab-Chinese wars of the Tang Dynasty
—Malay-Chinese and Muslim-Christians Conflicts in Indonesia
—The role of the CIA in Chinese Nationalist Armies in Burma