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Acknowledgments
This project could not have been completed without the support of the Japan Foundation (Toronto), Taipei Economic And Cultural Office (Toronto), the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Waterloo, and the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. We are extremely grateful for the financial assistance they provided. Through the research for this project, we consulted with dozens of government officials, industry representatives and academic colleagues in Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Canada. We deeply appreciate the time and attention that they devoted to our inquiries. We hope that the analysis contained in this book does justice to the insights, ideas and information that they so graciously provided. We also appreciate the devotion of Toni Tan of Cambria Press, who saw the potential in our project and helped shape this book, as well as the staff of Cambria Press whose careful and generous hands guided the book into print. We have also treasured the support and attention of our ever-growing family, particularly the grandchildren William, Spencer, Victoria, Katie and Christopher. As always, we have to recognize the unique and special contributions and character of each of the children and their partners: Bradley and Nikki, Mark and Gillian, Laura and Josh and Marlon. Over the course of the last year, the