Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce is Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology, and Honorary Academic Director of the Centre for Anthropological Research, the University of Hong Kong. She is author of State, Society and Religious Engineering Towards a Reformist Buddhism in Singapore and Rebuilding the Ancestral Village Singaporeans in China. Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. She is author Missionaries, Miners, and Indians and Yaqui Resistance and Survival The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821-1910.