GARY G. HAMILTON is Professor of Sociology and of International Studies at the University of Washington, USA TSAIMAN C. HO is Post-doctoral fellow in the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong HSIN-HUANG MICHAEL HSIAO is the Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS) and Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and Professor of Sociology, National Taiwan University JAMES J. HUDSON is a PhD student in the Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, USA WILLIAM HURST is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin, USA CHENG-SHU KAO is Professor of Sociology at Tunghai University in Taiwan CHUNG-HWA KU is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, and also the Director of the Center of Third Sector in the same university I-CHUN KUNG is a sociologist and Professor of the Graduate Institute of Southeast Asian Studies at the National Chi Nan University, Taiwan YI-MIN LIN teaches at the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ALVIN Y. SO teaches at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology CHRISTIAN SORACE is a PhD student in the Government Department in the University of Texas, Austin, USA WENBIN SUN is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, and is working at Central Policy Unit of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as Senior Researcher IVÁN SZELÉNYI is William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Professor of Political Science at Yale University, USA HONG-ZEN WANG is Professor and Director of the Graduate Institute of Sociology at the National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
