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Acknowledgements to the Second Edition I am grateful to Hong Kong University Press for their support in publishing the second edition of this book. I am indebted to a lot of people who have been most helpful and made it possible for me to carry out the research and see the completion of this book. I would like to record my gratitude to the informants in both Singapore and Anxi for opening their hearts and doors to constant questionings and probing. They have been most gracious in their answers. The names appeared in this book have been changed to protect the privacy of these individuals who have openly shared their views with me. In addition, I would like to acknowledge the institutional support provided by the University of Hong Kong and my colleagues within and outside the university. I am especially grateful to Professors Wang Gungwu and Arthur Kleinman who have provided much support for this work, and to the three reviewers, Professors Richard Madsen, James Watson and Yan Yunxiang, who have provided valuable comments and supported the publication of this second edition. I would also like to thank Michael Duckworth of Hong Kong University Press for his whole-hearted support and patience in this work, to researchers at Xiamen University for assisting with data collection, John Thorne for editing the manuscript, Ying Xiaofei for her thorough and meticulous efforts in updating the data in this second edition, Ke Jianyuan for taking the new photos, and Clara Ho and staff at Hong Kong University Press for their efforts in bringing this book to fruition. Last but not least, I would like to express my gratitude to my mother and late father for the assistance that they have provided me. They have been very generous with their time and patience, and to my husband and our Kuah_00_00fm.indd 11 26/11/2010 3:40 PM xii Acknowledgements to the Second Edition daughter whose unfailing support has made my intellectual pursuits a joyous experience. Needless to say, any shortcoming remains my sole responsibility. The author acknowledges the following journals and publishers for their kind permission to reproduce portions of her articles in this book: (1) For Chapter 5: Kuah, Khun Eng (1998). Rebuilding their ancestral villages: The moral economy of the Singapore Chinese. In G. W. Wang and J. Wong (eds.), China’s Political Economy. Singapore: University of Singapore Press and World Scientific, pp. 249–276. (2) For Chapter 6: Kuah, Khun Eng (1999). The changing moral economy of ancestor worship in a Chinese emigrant village. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 23(1): 99–132. (3) For Chapter 9: Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng (1998). Doing anthropology within a transnational framework: A study of the Singapore Chinese and emigrant village ties. In S. Cheung (ed.), On South China Track. Hong Kong: Institute of Asia-Pacific, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, pp. 81–109. Kuah_00_00fm.indd 12 26/11/2010 3:40 PM ...