Gary Yia Lee, PhD, is a Hmong academic from Laos who has lived in Australia since before the 1975 collapse of Laos. He received his PhD in social anthropology from Sydney University in 1981 and has published and researched extensively on the Hmong for 30 years. Dr. Lee has taught at the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, Macquarie University, and most recently at Concordia University in St. Paul, MN. His published works include The Hmong/Miao in Asia and The Hmong of Australia: Culture and Diaspora. Many of his publications can be found on his homepage, www.garyyialee.com. Nicholas Tapp, PhD, is professor in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where he runs the Thai-Yunnan project. Dr. Tapp has extensively researched and published on the Hmong for 30 years. He received a PhD in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, in 1985, and since then has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Edinburgh University. His published works include Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand and The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary, which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title award in 2002.