Kimberly Kay Hoang is associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. She lives in Chicago. Twitter @kimberlykhoang
"""Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers"" ""Winner of the PROSE Award in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers"" ""Winner of the Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association"" ""Winner of the Asia/Transnational Book Award, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association"" ""A revealing look at how a secretive, often criminal element enables the rich to ‘make and protect not only their money, but also their reputations.’ . . . A work of true crime as much as scholarship, highly readable and maddening."" * Kirkus Reviews *"