Acknowledgments

I am grateful to colleagues and students at McMaster University with whom I have discussed many points from this work, especially Richard Arthur, Howard Jones, and Stefan Sciaraffa.

I was able to present the Chinese material to several audiences in Shanghai, and I thank my hosts and conveners, Liu Liangjian ^lj ^^lj, Chen Yajun and Roger Ames.

There is a lot more than just the glossary that I could not have presented here without the unfailing generosity of Weng Haizhen W M. To safe­guard her kindness requires me to assume responsibility for any errors of Chinese usage that may have crept in despite her vigilance.

The introduction draws from “A Cool Experiment,” which was originally published in Common Knowledge 24, no. 1: 1-7. © 2018, Duke University Press.