Gonçalo D. Santos, a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Gonçalo Santos is the author of several publications on contemporary China and the co-editor of the volume Chinese Kinship (Routledge 2009). His research interests include kinship and intimacy; development and capitalist transformations; ethics and popular religion. He is also interested in the field of Science and Technology Studies. His current research focuses on charitable deeds and technologies of virtuous action in South China.