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1 Acknowledgements This volume would not have been possible without the continuing friendship and cooperation of the contributors. I wish to thank them all for their hard work and patience. While not representing the views of any organization, the chapters mirror their years of research and insight into the topics. I am indebted, particularly, to Professor Shi-xu, for sharing his vision of a multiculturalist approach to discourse theory, and to Dr Sim Liang, for providing generous help and support in editing the book manuscript. I am very grateful to the vision and forbearance of the two anonymous reviewers for an earlier manuscript of this book as well as Hong Kong University Press, who fully supported the idea of this book as well as our book series, Studying Multicultural Discourses. My thanks also go to the members of the Research Committee, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, for supporting my project proposal, RGC Direct Allocation Grant A-PA0G. Finally, I wish to dedicate this book to my parents and my children. To my parents, Wu Ziyan and Liu Sujuan, who have endured and embraced many challenges during their lifetimes as Chinese — from the hard years in the Second World War, Japanese invasion, the civil war between the KMT and the Communists, Mao’s New China and the Cultural Revolution, to the reform and construction era after Deng Xiaoping. To my children, Selena and Angela, a richer cultural life in the future. viii Contents ...

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