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vii Acknowledgments This book has been long in coming. From my initial question concerning how ordinary people understood and reacted to the Japanese empire, it expanded into a study of events and people that entailed multiple sites, covering a tumultuous period and touching upon the lives of a dozen figures across East Asia. I relied upon an entire community of scholars, colleagues, and friends for inspiration, advice, and support while researching and writing this study. Fujii Shōzō hosted me as a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo and facilitated my work, providing opportunities for dialogue with colleagues through reading groups, seminars, and workshops. Collaborating with him on several multiyear, multinational research projects funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary, cross-cultural research and provided opportunities to work with scholars from all over Asia. This helped me frame my argument within a larger East Asian context. I treasured our stimulating discussions on issues relating not only to Japan and China but also to Taiwan, Korea, and other parts of Asia. Tarumi Chie’s pioneering work on Sakaguchi Reiko was an inspiration for me. I also benefited from Yomota Inuhiko’s innovative viewpoint on Ri Kōran. Huang Yingzhe’s kind invitations to conferences in Nagoya helped launch the initial chapter of this book. Liao Ping-hui at Taiwan Tsing-hua University (now at UC San Diego) as well as Chen Fang-Ming and Wu Pei-Chen at National Chengchi University (Taiwan) invited me to teach workshops where I was able to exchange ideas on Japanese colonial culture in East Asia. Yonaha Keiko and Sasaki Mitsutoshi shared their knowledge of all things Japanese and their unfailing friendship. Sakaki Atsuko, Jan Bardsley, Barbara Brooks, and Ji Birui all encouraged my work on this topic. Colleagues at the University of Colorado filled in for me while I was on research leave. Sungyun Lim and Sangbok Kim helped me decipher Korean names. Researching this book required access to a wide variety of primary and secondary sources. My first resort was to the East Asia Collection of the Norlin Library at the University of Colorado, where I was facilitated by its staff, Kevin McDowell and Xiang Li, and was able to use its efficient Interlibrary Loan office. In Japan, Nishida Masaru at the Shokuminchi Bunka Gakkai and staff at the Miyazaki Tōten Museum in viii | Acknowledgments Kumamoto, Kyūshū, provided information on Miyazaki Tōten. Librarians at Academia Sinica (Taipei) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) helped me track down images for the book. The book would not have reached fruition without support from the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, which funded a year of research at the University of Tokyo from 2009 to 2010, and the Northeast Asian Council of the Association of Asian Studies, which provided me with a short-term research grant in summer of 2008. A fellowship from the International Consortium for the Study of the Humanities of Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, supplemented sabbatical funding from the University of Colorado, and its superb staff, headed by Michael Lackner and Petra Hahm, greatly facilitated the completion of the manuscript. A grant from the Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Colorado funded a fortnight of research in London. The Kayden Research Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences helped defray publication costs. Patricia Crosby and the University of Hawai‘i Press took great care in moving the manuscript to publication. Anonymous reviewers provided valuable suggestions that substantially improved the manuscript. The editors of Sino-Japanese Transculturation: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of the Pacific War and the Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese generously gave permission to adapt material from my publications therein for the current book. To all the above I express my heartfelt gratitude. Any remaining faults or errors are my own. Last but not least, Terry Kleeman and Alexandra Kleeman read through the manuscript in its many incarnations and gave invaluable support and encouragement all the way through. I am forever indebted to them. ...