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ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A work of this sort is always the product of many hands. The editors would like to acknowledge those who have helped us along the way. Kate Lawn performed an initial copyedit and provided an eye for detail that has served all of us well. Nancy Ellegate, our editor at SUNY Press, provided valuable assistance throughout the process of bringing the book to print, and Roger T. Ames, editor of SUNY’s series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture, offered generous support and advice. We are also grateful to Laurie Searl, our production editor at SUNY, for ensuring that the final stages of preparing the book proceeded smoothly, and to Rafael Chaiken, our copy editor at SUNY, for his careful work in helping all of us polish the essays into their final forms. The University of Oklahoma’s Office of Research Services and the Department of Public and Social Administration of City University of Hong Kong provided generous support for the preparation of this manuscript. We are also grateful to Bruce Tindall for preparing the index for this volume. Several images used in chapter 2 were granted for use in this volume courtesy of the Hunan Provincial Museum. The image used in chapter 3 was granted for use in this volume courtesy of Kexue chubanshe. An earlier version of Philip J. Ivanhoe’s chapter, “Death and Dying in the Analects,” appeared in Confucian Spirituality, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Tu Weiming (New York: Crossroad Press, 2004). ...

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