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for their perfect arrangement of everything related to this publication, as well as the UMN (University of Minnesota) Wilson Library, for its warm assistance in acquiring certain permissions of copyrighted items for the current book.
I would also like to express my gratitude to Sidney Cheung, Pedith Chan, Fanny Chung, Isaac Leung, and all my current colleagues in the Faculty of Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Without the most encouraging, engaging, and exciting intellectual environment they offered to me, this book would not have come into being so successfully.
While working on this book I have presented my research at a series of conferences and symposia. I should like particularly to thank audiences at the 105th College Art Association annual conference (New York, February 2017) and the Art History Faculty Symposium of University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, April 2018), for their constructive feedback. It should also be noted that a version of chapter 3 has been previously published in Orientations, January/February 2018, pp. 103–11. An old version of chapter 8 can be found in Sino-Platonic Papers, edited by Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, January 2017 (Number 265), pp. 1–48. These two sections have both been modified and revised for this book.
Last but not least, words cannot express my deepest gratitude to my family. My mother, a beloved doctor, and my father, a determined scholar, are my model of being a whole person. Their names are written in Chinese on the dedication page. I am also blessed to have a wonderful sister, Peng Li. My wife, Hye-shim Yi, has shared with me every joy and frustration of my research, and most important of all, the unparalleled bliss of having our first kid, Leo Peng (彭勵豪)—Leo, you know, without you, your father’s book would not have been finished so cheerfully.