Editor’s Note
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In the making of this book, sincere gratitude is given to Ann Heylen at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. Her academic network has enabled this project to include a richly diverse group of authors. Niki Alsford, a new graduate from the International Master’s Program in Asia-Pacific Studies at National Chengchi University, entered the project at its crucial stage to take the reins of management. His participation kept the project on an even keel, coordinating the many authors, academic reviewers, copyeditors, design specialists, commentators, and publishing assistants. Lee Ching, our book packager, with her diligence and professionalism, skillfully helped produce this volume. Copyediting was supported by Vikram Mehta, Boris Voyer, Frank Tedesco, Dean Karalekas, Chris Anderson, Frank Muyard, and Wang Huiji. Daniel Bowmen helped with the bibliogra phies and gave his editorial observations. Academic referees critically reviewed authors’ work for their acceptence to the project and in editing stages. My appreciation is given to the anonymous reviewers. Fortunately a number of excellent Taiwan scholars masterfully helped with editing improvements. Completion of this book editing relied on lengthy discussions with Frank Muyard. He gave suggestions openly on refining chapters, both for grammar and content, with his acute sense for maintaining academic integrity. Mauricio Molina supervised the indexing with support from Robert Waltner, Jonthan Brody, Tammy Turner, Philip Dillar, and especially Liao (Kitsch) Yen-fan who tirelessly worked on refinement. Eric Yu, Director of the Shung Ye Museum for Formosan Aborigines, and Rebecca Tsai—a curator of the museum, have enthusiastically supported the project from inception to completion. Roma Mehta, graphic designer par excellence, gave the book its aesthetic appearance from its covers to page design. Book finishing was completed by the NTU Press staff. At SMC Publishing Inc., Wei Te-wen offered his skills to ensure the project met the required format standards, helped by his assistant Shen Wan-ling. The Taiwan map, indicating the place names from the book chapters, was designed by Lee Yu-ting with support from Pai Pi-ling at the Center for Geographic Information Science (GIS), RCHSS, Academia Sinica.
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