Acknowledgments
This edited volume grew out of a symposium at Seton Hall University that was generously supported by a Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society grant underwritten by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and awarded by the American Council for Learned Societies. Additional funding for the symposium was provided by the Confucius Institute of Rutgers University as well as by Seton Hall University.
The concept for the symposium and the resulting volume were developed by the editors in Sydney in March 2015, a process made possible by an International Researcher Collaboration Award (IRCA) from the University of Sydney.
We are grateful to ACLS for allowing us to apply a part of the grant that was not used for the symposium towards the production of the book. Additional production expenses were borne by the Sydney Intellectual History Network at the University of Sydney and the Future Fellowship Scheme of The Australian Research Council.
Many individuals have contributed to this volume’s completion. Our thanks go, first and foremost, to the participating authors. Their enthusiasm and professionalism have made it a pleasure to work with them. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewer, who provided valuable commentary that we have put to good use. We thank Johanna Seasonwein for her professional and efficient copy-editing of the manuscript and Cynthia Col for preparing the index. We are very appreciative of the help and support of the members of Brill’s editorial and production team, including Qin Higley, Victoria Menson, Lauren Bissonette, and Kayla Griffin, who were part of the effort to make this book a reality. Others who in various ways have contributed to this book include Dong Dong Chen (Seton Hall University), Ya-Chen Ma (National Tsing Hua University), and Dietrich Tschanz (Rutgers University).