GARY G.HAMILTON Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Washington at Seattle HONG LUI Assistant professor in the Department of Chinese Studies and Assistant Director of the Centre for Research in Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore KATHARYNE MITCHELL Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle KRIS OLDS Lecturer in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore GORDON REDDING Affiliate Professor of Asian Business at the Euro-Asia Centre, INSEAD ALAN SMART Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary JOSEPHINE SMART Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary CHIA-ZHI TAN Web Specialist in Temasek Polytechnic, managing the Corporate Internet and Intranet DANIEL VAN DEN BULCKE Professor of International Management and Development, University of Antwerp (RUCA) in Belgium SIA-LUN WONG Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong HENRY WAI-CHUNG YEUNG Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore YU ZHOU Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College HAIYAN ZHANG Research Assistant at the University of Antwerp - RUCA