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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to express our sincere thanks to Mr. C.S. Leung and his staff for their invaluable assistance in the preparation of this atlas. We are grateful to Dr. Flora Baber for providing many of the excellent photos in the section on development, and to Dr. Henrietta Ip and Dr. Barbara Lam for their permission to use twelve photographs from their own collections. Our gratitude is due to Dr. Paul Ko and Dr. Francis Ho for their encouragement and constructive advice in the preparation of this book, and to Dr. Yc. Tsao, Dr. Louis Low, Professor Ye Yi-Yan and Dr. Albert Wou for their valuable suggestions and comments on the manuscript. We thank Teresa Wong, Anita Ho, Constance Chau and their colleagues for their competent secretarial assistance, and to all our colleagues in the department for their help in different ways. Finally, we would like to thank the staff of Hong Kong University Press for their patience and meticulous attention to detail in this publication. ...

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