Acknowledgements
This volume is the brainchild of a major international research networking project that I directed from 2014 to 2016. The title of the project is “China and the Human Sciences: 1600 to the Present,” and it hosted a series of events (panels, workshops, public engagement events, and conferences) in Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. I acknowledge the British Arts and Humanities Research Council for providing a Research Grant (AH/L01579X/1). I thank the project co-investigator, Hsiu-fen Chen (Department of History, National Chengchi University), and the project partners, Wen-Ji Wang (Institute of Science, Technology, and Society, National Yang Ming University) and Harry Yi-Jui Wu (then at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University), for seeing the project through its different stages and all of the participants who shared their work between 2014 and 2016. I also thank the Global History and Culture Centre (especially Mrs. Amy Evans) and the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick for providing administrative support for the events hosted by Warwick. Finally, the editors at Brill, including Qin Higley, Victoria Menson, and Lauren Bissonette, have been a pleasure to work with, and the two anonymous readers provided extensive feedback that helped to improve the intellectual merit of this book.
HC
London, UK
December 2018