Tong Chee Kiong is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is also Special Academic Advisor and Chair Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) as well as the Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, UBD. Chee Kiong’s research interests focus on the Chinese in Southeast Asia, religion and religious change and Asian business networks. His recent publications include Chinese Death Rituals (2004), Rationalizing Religion: Religious Conversion, Revivalism, and Competition in Singapore (2007), and Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia: Racializing Chineseness (2010). Chee Kiong has also published papers in the British Journal of Sociology, International Migration Review, Diaspora, Child Abuse and Neglect, International Sociology, and Journal of Asian Business.