Bernard P. Wong (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a professor of anthropology at San Francisco State University. He has conducted fieldwork on the Chinese in Peru, the United States, Japan and the Philippines. His research interests include the family, ethnic identity, cultural citizenship, globalization and ethnic entrepreneurship. He has taught, given lectures and professional presentations at the University of Wisconsin, Keio University (Japan), Yonsei University (Korea), Institute of Migration and Entrepreneurship Studies of the University of Amsterdam, UC-Berkeley and UCLA, University of Singapore, Academia Sinica and other institutions of higher learning.

Prof. Wong is the author of six scholarly books, many book chapters and journal articles. His publications include Chinatown: Economic Adaptation and Ethnic Identity of the Chinese (1982), Patronage, Brokerage, Entrepreneurship and the Chinese Community of New York (1988), Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship (1997), Family, Kin and Community (2001), Chinese in Silicon Valley (2006). He is currently working on a book on the Chinese Diasporas in the Pacific Rim Countries.