Zhou Daming is a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology and the Vice-Director of Historical Anthropology Research Center. Zhou is the Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Sociology and Anthropology department in Sun Yat-sen University. He is the Director of Immigrants and Ethnic Research Center in Sun Yat-sen University. He is also the Committee Member of Committee of Social Science, Ministry of Education P.R.C. and the expert in the review group of National Social Science Fund, the Vice-President of China Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and the Vice-Chairman of Chinese Association of Ethnology. His major research areas are migrates, urban and country development, ethnic groups and regional culture. Zhou’s representative works include the Study about Casual Laborers in China’s Southeast Coastal Cities (Sun Yat-Sen University Press, 2007), The Vicissitudes of Phoenix House (Social Science Academic Press, 2006), and the Desire for Surviving: Anthropological Investigation on Migrant Workers Flow (Sun Yat-Sen University Press, 2005).