Louisa Schein is professor emeritus of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, USA. She has Worked on the cultural politics around the Miao/Hmong in China and the United States for four decades. She is the author of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 2000), and the co-editor of Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space (Routledge, 2006, with Tim Oakes) and Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia (Duke University Press, 2013, with Purnima Mankekar). She also co-authored interventions on racialisation of Hmong Americans. She currently directs the international Chinese-English Keywords Project.