Acknowl edgments This book has benefited enormously from the support of numerous friends, colleagues, and institutions. We thank the Wenner-Gr en Foundation and the National Science Foundation for the generous grants that made this research pos si ble. We are also grateful to our respective in- stitutions, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Stanford University, for the faculty research funds that supported the preliminary research for this proj ect. Fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center and the Mi- chelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research provided crucial support for Sylvia Yanagisako’s writing. The Shanghai Social Sciences Institute was an ideal host for our research in Shanghai. We especially thank Li Li for help with introductions. The invitation to pres ent the Lewis Henry Morgan Distinguished Lecture of 2010 gave us the opportunity to pres ent an early analy sis and framing of our ethnographic material. We thank Robert Foster and Thomas Gibson and their colleagues in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Rochester for extending this invitation to us. The astute commentaries on our Mor- gan Lecture by Robert Foster, David Horn, Rebecca Karl, Eleana Kim, John Osburg, and Andrea Muehlebach wer e invaluable in the development and writing of this book. Donald Donham, Leiba Faier, James Ferguson, Gillian Hart, Gail Hershat- ter, George Marcus, Megan Moodie, Donald Moore, Anna Tsing, and Mei Zhan read vari ous chapters and gave the kind of honest feedback that makes all the difference. Conversations with Gopal Balakrishnan, Laura Bear, Chris- topher Connery, Karen Ho, Dai Jinhua, Keir Martin, and Massimilliano Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/chapter-pdf/678904/9781478002178-xi.pdf by guest on 24 September 2021 Mollona invigorated our analyses of transnational capitalism. Our gradu ate students engaged in lively discussion with us and offered support in numer- ous ways: at the University of California, Santa Cruz: Patricia Alvarez, Gillian Bogart, Zachary Caple, Rebecca Feinberg, Alix Johnson, Caroline Kao, Sarah Kelman, Kali Rubaii, and Aaron Wistar; and at Stanford: Hannah Appel, Hil- ary Chart, Eda Pepi, Maron Greenleaf, and Vivian Lu. Elena Glasberg served as Lisa Rofel’s writing angel. We especially thank Vivian Lu and Eda Pepi for their tireless work in getting this manuscript in order. The audiences’ lively engagement and questions in response to our talks at the following universities and institutes led to impor tant revisions in our analy sis and the writing of this book: Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Bergen, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley— variously at their Department of Anthropology, Center for Critical Theory, and Center for Chinese Studies— University of California, Davis, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Centre Norbert Elias of the École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris and Marseille), Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Duke University, Fromm Institute at University of San Francisco, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Leiden University, London School of Economics, Nanjing Uni- versity, New York University, Norwegian Institute for Social Research, Uni- versity of Oslo, Shanghai University, Southern Methodist University, University of Texas, Austin, and University of Vir ginia. Sylvia Yanagisako’s participa- tion in the following workshops and conferences provoked critical think- ing of how this study fit into broad areas of scholarship on labor, kinship, capitalism, and transnationalism: the workshop on Kinship and Modernity at the School of Advanced Research or ga nized by Fenella Cannell and Susan McKinnon, The Reconfiguring ofLa bor at the University of Oslo or ga nized by Christian Krohn- Hansen and Penelope Harvey, Global Relations: Kinship and Transnationalism at Brown University or ga nized by Jessaca Leinaweaver, Speculation: New Vistas on Capitalism at the London School of Economics or ga nized by Laura Bear, and Risk and Uncertainty in the Economy or ga- nized by Jens Beckert and Hartmut Berghoff. Our collaboration with Simona Segre Reinach has been crucial to the re- search we conducted in China and Italy and to the writing of this book. Her deep understanding of the history of fashion, Italian fashion, transnational and global fashion, and fashion studies scholarship contributed enormously to our understanding of the Chinese- Italian joint ventures we studied. We are xii Acknowl edgments Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/chapter-pdf/678904/9781478002178-xi.pdf by guest on 24 September 2021 grateful for her patience and generosity in tutoring us in the con temporary fashion industry. Last but not least, we thank our partners and families for their love, sup- port, and understanding of the amount of time it takes to conduct ethno- graphic research and write a book. Lisa thanks Graciela Trevisan, and Sylvia thanks John Sullivan, Emi Sullivan, and Nathan Sullivan. Acknowl edgments xiii Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/chapter-pdf/678904/9781478002178-xi.pdf by guest on 24 September 2021.