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Acknowledgments I have incurred so many debts writing this book. It gives me great pleasure to have an opportunity to express my gratitude here. I thank Professors Leo Oufan Lee, David Der-wei Wang, Wilt L. Idema, and Andrew Gordon for helping me lay the foundation for this book in my dissertation and continuing to offer inspiration to this day. I am truly grateful for their unwavering support. David Der-wei Wang, Wilt L. Idema, and Pär Cassel read the manuscript and offered valuable feedback in the past few years. Xiaomei Chen and three anonymous readers read the manuscript throughout the review process and provided crucial guidance. My editor at the University of Michigan Press, LeAnn Fields, her assistant, Alexa Ducsay, and the project manager for my book at the press, Marcia LaBrenz, have all been most helpful and a pleasure to work with. I am truly grateful to the following colleagues and friends who read earlier iterations of parts of the manuscript and offered feedback: Russell Berman, Miranda Brown, Theodore Fiedler, Carolyn Fitzgerald, Jennifer Goodlander, Denise Ho, Gordon Hogg, Masamichi (Marro) Inoue, Andrew Kimbrough, Haiyan Lee, Valerie Levan, Joseph O’Neil, Christine de Pee, Suzanne Pucci, David Rolston, Douglas Slaymaker, Akiko Takenaka, Ban Wang, Matthew Wells, Yiching Wu, and Hui Faye Xiao. I have drawn strength and inspiration from the many wonderful scholars and friends who became part of my professional life in Mainland China and the United States over the years, and I must also thank the many individuals in Japan, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Taiwan whose generosity has helped to make my research and lecture trips both fruitful and enjoyable. Although this list is necessarily incomplete, I thank, in particular, Cristina Alcalde, Jennifer Altehenger, Ashida Hajime, Mingzhen Bao, Weihong Bao, Srimati Basu, Theodore Bestor, Kate Black, Susan Bordo, George Bornstein, Anna Brzyski, Duncan Campbell, Dongshin Chang, Ch’a T’ae-gŭn, Anarchichi Chen, Jianhua Chen, Liana Chen, Ya-chen Chen, Chen Yongguo, Likkwan Cheung, Robert Chi, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Rey Chow, Joscha Chung, Claire Conceison, Verena Coney, Jacqueline Couti, Annika Culver, viii acknowledgments Kirk A. Denton, Xinyu Dong, Dong Limin, Liliana Drucker, Fredrik Fällman, Geraldine Fiss, Christopher Forth, Fujii Shōzō, Qian Gao, Mary Gluck, Beth Goldstein, Joshua Goldstein, Laurence Goldstein, Frederik Green, Anup Grewal , Guo Yingde, Lorri Hagman, William Hammell, Han Kuo-Huang, Satoru Hashimoto, Man He, Shana Herron, Qin Higley, Kazuko Hioki, Carma Hinton , Maeda Hisaka, Michel Hockx, Hu Jiangfeng, Alexa Huang, Nicole Huang, Chang-tai Hung, Theodore Huters, Kim Su-yŏn, Kotari Ichirō, Inata Naomi, Gerald Janecek, Jian Yi, Hui Jiang, Wei Jiang, Jiang Yuanlun, Marja Kaikkonen, Thomas Kampen, Kathi Kern, Shigehisha Kuriyama, Lai Xia, Charles Laughlin, Yuk Ying Lee, James Lee, Minggang Li, Li Runxia, Waiyee Li, Li Zhengrong, Zhiying Li, Yi-chieh Lin, Chiung-yun Liu, Liu Hongtao, Liu Xiangyu, Liu Yong, Sheldon Lu, Luo Gang, Christopher Lupke, Ma Hailiang, Kenny Kwok-Kwan Ng, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Maruyama Noboru, Andrew Maske, Huajing Maske, Jason McGrath, Meng Dengying, Jiayan Mi, Barbara Mittler, Ōki Yasushi, Stephen Owen, Shaw-Yu Pan, Pu Bo, Jeff Richey, Steve Riep, Cynthia Ruder, Joanna Rutter, Leon Sachs, Saji Toshihiko, Tze-lan D. Sang, Rosemary Schindler (Xin Li), Shi Zhecun, Shu-mei Shih, Darryl Sterk, G. Andrew Stuckey, André Stufkens, Ronald Suleski, Keiko Tanaka, Xiaobing Tang, Tao Dongfeng, Karen Thornber, Tian Benxiang, Tian Dawei, Tian Qinxin, Tian Shen (Tian Hainan), Xiaofei Tian, Karen Tice, Hitomi Tonomura, Caitlin Joan Torres, Jing Tsu, Tu Weiming, Nicolai Volland, Anna Voskresensky, Rudolf Wagner, Cecilia Wang, Wang Dan, Eugene Wang, Wang Furen, Wang Guimei, Wang Xiangyuan, Wang Yichuan, Yugen Wang, Wang Zheng, Kristen Wanner, Jeff Wasserstrom, Vivien Yan Wei, Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Linda Worley, Shengqing Wu, Wu Wenguang, Lanjun Xu, Haiping Yan, Yang Lianfen, Xiaobin Yang, Catherine Yeh, Yu Sheng-kuan, Kyoim Yun, Enhua Zhang, Zhang Longxi, Zhang Wanmin , Yingjin Zhang, Xueping Zhong, Yawen Zhou, Yu Zhou, and Zhou Zhiqiang for their generous support. I am deeply indebted to the many librarians at the following libraries, archives, and museums whose support and expertise have been crucial along the way: University of Kentucky libraries, University of Michigan libraries, Harvard-Yenching Library, Beijing Normal University libraries, Beijing University libraries, National Library of China, China Film Archive, National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, Chongqing Library, Hong Kong Film Archive, Shanghai Library, Shanghai Municipal Archive, Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Tokyo University libraries (especially [18.217.144.32] Project MUSE (2024-04-19 00:27 GMT...

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