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Acknowledgments
This book, which presents new research conducted after I completed my PhD program, would not have come to fruition without the help of my colleagues Wu Shengqing, Stephen Angle, Mary Alice Haddad, and William Johnston. The year I spent at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College was crucial for the research and writing of the manuscript. My friends and colleagues Tian Xiaofei, Anna Shields, Qian Nanxiu, Zhang Ling, Linda Feng, Huai Rui, and Song Mingwei offered me numerous insightful comments and suggestions to improve this book. Eleanor Goodman, Allison Deventer, and Richard Stack copyedited the manuscript at different stages, and I am very grateful to them. Eleanor, in particular, is also a fellow poet, co-translator, and my closest friend in the United States.
I want to thank my mentors and teachers Robert Hegel, Kang-I Sun Chang, Michelle Yeh, David Der-wei Wang, and Wang Yugen for their ongoing guidance since my twenties. I am also grateful to Toni Tan and David Armstrong of Cambria Press for shepherding this book to publication with their exemplary work. This book is dedicated to Miya Qiong Xie, who reads each word I write, gives me hope, and supports my every dream.