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vii Acknowledgments Earlier versions of parts of some chapters have appeared in the following: chapter 1 in Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime, ed. Andrew Nock Soon Ng, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008, 187-209; chapter 2 in Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 26 (Winter 2008): 17-32; chapter 5 in Studies in Symbolic Interaction 33 (2009): 149-63; chapter 6 in Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Signification, ed. Vartan Messier and Nandita Batra, London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009, 15277 ; chapter 7 in Asian Cinema Studies 17.2 (2006): 32-46.; chapter 8 in Mechademia 4: War/Time (2009): 183-96; chapter 10 in China Rights Forum 1 (2008): 121-26. All articles are reprinted by permission. I am indebted to the following individuals, who made it possible for me to complete this book during the period leading up to my Chair Professorship at Taiwan ’s Providence University, 2012-13: Karin Wurst and David Prestel at my home institution, Michigan State University, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, I-Chun Wang, Fu-chang Wang, Kun Jong Lee, John Lent, and Patricia Haseltine.As always, I could not have accomplished this or any other project without the support of Lien Hsu and Roan Ma. This page intentionally left blank ...

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