Gary G. Hamilton is a Professor of Sociology at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He has published numerous books and articles, including most recently Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the end of the 20th Century, editor and contributor (University of Washington Press, 1999), The Economic Organization of East Asian Capitalism, with Marco Orru and Nicole Biggart (Sage 1997) and Asian Business Networks, editor (de Gruyter, 1996).