Acknowledgements
Besides the collaborators mentioned on the title-page and in the Introduction (see note 5), many individuals provided comments on earlier drafts, recommended titles for new entries, provided citations of secondary literature, corrected mistakes, and otherwise helped improve the quality of the work in progress. Even though it has not always been possible to take all their suggestions into account, I wish to express my gratitude to Paola Calanca, Chiu Pengsheng 邱澎生, Frédéric Constant, Helen Dunstan, Pierre-Henri Durand, Sören Edgren, Fuma Susumu 夫馬進, Daniel Hausmann, He Wenkai 和文凱, Joshua Herr, Iwai Shigeki 岩井茂樹, Christian Lamouroux, Lau Nap-yin 柳立言, Lee Chaokai 李朝凱, Sukhee Lee, Li Bozhong 李伯重, Mao Yike 毛亦可, Pei Danqing 裴丹青, Winkin Puk 卜永堅, Pierre-Emmanuel Roux, Joanna Handlin Smith, Thies Staack, Sun Jiahong 孫家紅, Terada Hiroaki 寺田浩明, Olivier Venture, Richard von Glahn, Wang Zhiqiang 王志強, Endymion Wilkinson, Wu Jingjie 吳景傑, and Xie Yang 解揚.
Howard Goodman’s erudite copy-editing of an unusually long and complicated manuscript has been invaluable in turning it into a consistent and reader-friendly book.
It would be too long to enumerate all the persons who provided help in the many libraries visited by the collaborators to the project. However, special mentions are due to Kuroda Akinobu 黑田明伸 at the Tōyō Bunka Kenkyūjo and Shiba Yoshinobu 斯波義信 at the Tōyō Bunko, who year after year kindly invited me to their respective institutions and allowed me to freely range the stacks of these two marvelous collections. I likewise owe a considerable debt to Shum Wing Fong 岑詠芳 and her colleagues at the Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Collège de France, which has been my home library for decades.
In Beijing, the well-known bibliophile and legal scholar, Tian Tao 田濤, was enthusiastically supportive of the project and eager to share his books whenever we were in town. His untimely death six years ago came as a shock. This book is dedicated to his memory.
Finally, my gratitude goes to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taipei, which supported research for the project with a generous grant during the years 1998–2001.
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