The Authors: Hong Liu is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies and Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. He has held visiting appointments at the universities of Amsterdam, Kyoto, Peking, and Stockholm and has published widely on the Chinese Diaspora and modern Asia. Sin-Kiong Wong is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in history from Indiana University. He has taught at Purdue University and held visiting positions at University of California-Berkeley and Academia Sinica, Taiwan. In addition to numerous articles in referred journals, he is the author of two books, including China's Anti-American Boycott Movement in 1905: A Study in Urban Protest (Peter Lang, 2002).