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Professor Kuiyi Shen came to UCSD just as I was writing my dissertation

prospectus and I thank him for his mentorship, guidance, and encouragement from the

project’s inception. I wish he had come earlier in my graduate training – his course

lectures, references, and personal introductions to curators, collections, and museums

have been invaluable to this project. His enthusiasm in art history has kept me in

graduate school. Professor Norman Bryson and Jack Greenstein in Visual Arts also gave

me critical feedback on early versions of chapters 2 and 3.

Mentors at other institutions have provided crucial comments and support. I

thank Professors Dorothy Ko of Barnard College, Marta Hanson of Johns Hopkins

University, and Vimalin Rujivacharakul of the University of Delaware for reading

chapters and outlines at crucial moments of my thinking. At conferences and over the

internet, other scholars have given helpful advice and comments. I thank Teruyuki Kubo,

Joe McDermott, Hans van de Ven, John Moffett, Qianshen Bai, Michael Dillon, Robert

Finlay, Luo Suwen, Cynthia Brokaw, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Han Qi, Han Jianping, Lara

Netting, Cheng Pei-kai, Wen-hsin Yeh and the members of the 2007 AAS Dissertation

Workshop on Art and Politics. I owe much to my undergraduate advisor, Professor Frank

Turner of Yale University, for encouraging me through the years.

As someone who came to the subject of art history and porcelain rather late, I

have needed to beseech the advice of many specialists in history of science, art history,

and ceramics. I am grateful to Yu Peichin, Shih Chingfei, Peng Yingchen, and Lai

Yuchih at the National Palace Museum. In England, I received much help from Stacey

Pierson, former curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art and Zhang

Hongxing, Senior Curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Also indispensable to my

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