Hy V. Luong is currently Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Professor Luong’s main areas of interest are: Sociolinguistics; Language, Ideology, and Political Economy; East and Mainland Southeast Asia. He is interested in the interplay of discourse, social structure, and political economy, and in East and Mainland Southeast Asia (especially Vietnam). His major publications include Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese System of Person Reference (John Benjamins, 1990), Revolution in the Village: Tradition and Transformation in North Vietnam, 1925-1988 (University of Hawaii Press, 1992), Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia  (co-editor with T. Brook, University of Michigan Press, 1997). Professor Luong has regularly conducted field research in Vietnam since 1987, and has published numerous book chapters and articles in major academic journals on language, social organization, and political economy in twentieth century Vietnam, such as "Discursive Practices, Ideological Oppositions, and Power Structure: Person-Referring Forms and Sociopolitical Struggles in Colonial Vietnam" in American Ethnologist XV: 239-253, and "The Marxist State and the Dialogic Re-Structuration of Culture in Northern Vietnam" in Indochina: Social and Cultural Change , by D. Elliott, H. V. Luong, B. Kiernan, and T. Mahoney (Claremont McKenna College-Keck Center Monograph, 1994). Professor Luong's current projects focus on discourse, gender, and political economy. He is completing a book manuscript Culture, Capital, and the State: Labour Relations in Vietnamese Pottery Enterprises, and working on his major data set on the discourse and gender in four Vietnamese communities