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Acknowledgments
I am indebted to many individuals for their help in the preparation of this book. In particular, I must thank my academic advisor, Robert Bagley, for his unfading inspiration and enduring encouragement, as well as his always insightful comments on the manuscript. To him, I owe more than I can say.
I am also grateful to W. Thomas Chase, Alain Thote, Mei Jianjun, Victor Mair, and Robert Murowchick, for their valued advice and support. Friends, colleagues, and teachers who have helped me bring this book to fruition also include: Li Shuicheng, Jerome Silbergeld, Hua Jueming, Tan Derui, Zhang Changping, Li Yung-ti, Michael Notis, Qian Wei, Chen Jianli, Lian Haiping, Ma Jinhong, Wu Laiming, Li Yuxin, Huang Fengchun, Shao Anding, Sammy Li, Cao Dazhi, Cui Jianfeng, Robert Silberman, Michael Gaudio, Anna Lise Seastrand, Matthew Canepa, Sinem Casale, Frederick Asher, Liu Yang, Wang Cheng-hua, and Bryan Just (to avoid the list from being endless, I have to omit many significant names here).
Special thanks should go to Su Rongyu and Wang Yong, for many illustrative photographs and brilliant ideas they provided for my research, Kimberly Wishart and Allison Vandev, for their painstakingly careful proofreading of my work, David Armstrong and Toni Tan (Cambria Press),