Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of "Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationalism "(1999) and "Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia "(1987), and the editor of "Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism "(1997) and "Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Labor Politics in Southeast Asia "(California, 1995).