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Acknowledgements
My greatest debt is to Professor Jianmei Liu, my former advisor, whose academic guidance and generous support have made this book possible. I am grateful that she has always been there for me, making sure that I am on the right track. I am particularly grateful for her faith in me and in my ability to think independently. She is a mentor and a best friend in its truest sense.
I also want to thank Professors Claire Moses, Deborah Rosenfelt, James Gao, and Merle Collins for their encouragement and great feedbacks. In addition, I wish to thank Professor Claire Moses, whose inspiring Women’s Studies course got me hooked on feminism, and Professor Deborah Rosenfelt for another exciting class, from which some first ideas for this project were generated. I would also like to thank Professor John Fuegi for introducing Virginia Woolf into my research, and the Comparative Literature Program for having offered me this opportunity to learn.
It is always a great honor to have one’s book published, and I owe an enormous debt to Ms. Toni Tan and the staff of Cambria Press. Ms. Tan is always there for me with her kindness, support and patience, for which I am really grateful.