I owe a debt of gratitude to Lingnan University for funding a postdoctoral position with a duty to assist with my research. During her tenure as a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Zhang Chen fulfilled this duty in a most diligent and professional manner, producing rough translations of various narrative sections of this book. The degree to which I have benefited from these translations varies from chapter to chapter, and they surely helped speed up the manuscript completion. My heartfelt thanks go to Cara Ryan for meticulously editing all chapters and to Leon Chai for sharing his insights into various issues of Western literary theory. I also wish to thank Patricia J. Watson for her meticulous copy-editing of the entire manuscript, Charles Brower of Duke University Press for overseeing the editorial process in a most helpful and professional manner, and Matthew Ching Hang Cheng for helping with the back matter, as well...

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