1.Introduction 2.Quo Vadis Homo Sapientissime?Transdisciplinary Perspectives of Human Ecology 3.Human Evolution in China: Viewed from Multidisciplinary Records 4.The Origins of the Japanese People 5.Historical Foundation and Current Development of Anthropology and Ethnology in China 6.Globalization: The Anthropological Perspective 7.Global Economy and Constructed Social Imagination: Intersection of Aesthetics, Race, Gender and Caste in South Asia 8.Remapping Anthropology's Peripheral Zones 9.Symbols in Place: In Search of the Soul of the City 10.The Chinese High-Tech Professionals in Silicon Valley: From Scholars to Entrepreneurs 11.Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance: Why Anthropology 12.Dispossession and Displacement to Protect Nature: The Mobile Harasiis Tribe Faces the 21st Century 13.Contributors