Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the 20th Century, by Gary G. Hamilton (ed.)

 

Contributors

 

Gary Hamilton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He has written extensively on Chinese economic organization and is the author of current and forthcoming books on Chinese and Asian economies.

Katharyne Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. She is the author of a forthcoming book on Hong Kong migration to Vancouver, B.C. (University of California Press) and is currently studying the lines of conflict and consensus between new and old Chinese migration communities of Vancouver.

Barry Naughton is a Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He is one of the foremost specialists on the Chinese economy and the author of a recently published book, Growing Out of the Plan, Chinese Economic Reform, 1973–1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Helen Siu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. A native Hongkonger, she is a leading specialist on the anthropology of South China.

G. William Skinner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California. A distinguished anthropologist and former president of the Asian Studies Association, he is an authority on urban organization in Asia and the Chinese in overseas communities.

Wang Gungwu is a distinguished historian, the foremost specialist on the Chinese in Southeast Asia, and former president of the University of Hong Kong. He is currently the Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Edgar Wickberg is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of British Columbia. He is one of the foremost specialists on the history of the Chinese in Southeast Asia and Canada.

Wong Siu-Lun is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. He is the leading specialist on Chinese entrepreneurship and has just completed a very large study on recent migration from Hong Kong.

The Honorable Rosanna Yick-Ming Wong is currently Chair of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Government, and Executive Director of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups.