ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank Marta Hanson, Dore Levy, Shang Wei, and Yi-Li Wu for taking the time to read the entire manuscript and for providing me with their invaluable comments and support. Thanks to Margaret Wong for her devotion to teaching the Chinese language to me and to many, many other high schoolers. Dore Levy introduced me to the study of Chinese literature—its rigors and its pleasures—for whom and for which I am extremely grateful. I owe a great deal of gratitude to David Rolston, whose thoroughness in commenting on the manuscript helped me to make connections, excise tangents, and saved me from making numerous embarrassing errors. I learned from him an enormous amount about Chinese fiction and about my own topic. I also am indebted to David Wang, Charlotte Furth, Carlos Rojas, Paize Kuelemans, Anthony Yu, Volker Shied, Yenna Wu, and Kirk Denton for their suggestions on the various articles and talks that make up parts of this book. Nathan Sivin, Hsiu-Fen Chen, Chang Che Chia, Angela Leung, Bob Hymes, Charles Stone, and Paul Unschuld also gave generously of their time in answering my many e-mail queries. Guiling Hu helped me to locate and fix errors of pinyin and Chinese. Thank you to the editors of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture for allowing me to reprint parts of my article “Vectors of Contagion and Tuberculosis in Modern Chinese Literature” from their spring 2011 volume. This work was aided by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. I am grateful for the institutional support of Columbia University and the Heyman Center for Humanities, SUNY New Paltz, Bard College, and the University of Maryland. The staff at the National Library of Medicine, Starr Library, Gest Library, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Wellcome Library, Academia Sinica, McKeldin Library, Hornbake Library, and Library of Congress have all been enormously helpful in their willingness to help me track down materials. My colleagues Michele Mason, Bob Ramsey, and Eric Zakim gave sound guidance at various stages of development. I am grateful to the two anonymous readers of my manuscript—their suggestions were extremely helpful. Thanks also to Lorri Hagman of the University of Washington Press. Richard C. Y. Chung was very helpful and a good friend. Pat Hui has been a great facilitator and an inspiration for my studies of Chinese culture all along. Most of all, I would like also to thank Angus Worthing, Eugene Poon-Kaneko, Andy Auseon, my parents, and especially Chava Brandriss, Ella, Maggie, and Molly for their support and expertise. I love you.