Li Ang Acknowledgements - Contemporary Chinese Writers

Li Ang

Acknowledgments

The Contemporary Chinese Writers Project gratefully acknowledges the Foreign Languages and Literatures Section for its generous funding in support of this site. The project could not have succeeded without the support and encouragement from the Section.

Any website is a product of a team that shepherds the project along from conception through design and development. The team for the Li Ang site includes the following individuals:

Site co-directors:

• Min-Min Liang, Lecturer, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Department
• Jonathan Griffith, MIT-SUTD Collaboration, MIT
• Emma Teng, T. T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilization, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Department

Also contributing:

• Charles Bent, SYP Design & Production
• Maryann Czerepak, MIT Publishing Service Bureau
• Kathleen Forsythe, Forsythe Design
• Victor Park, MIT Publishing Service Bureau
• Jeffery Pearlin, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures

Gratitude goes to Emma Teng for facilitating the connection with the faculty at National Taiwan University.

Special thanks also go to Professor Chia-ling Mei, Head of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at National Taiwan University, who helped us to interview Li Ang, and Professor Kuei-fen Chiu, Director of the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at National Chung-hsing University, who generously shared her research on Li Ang with us. We also want to thank Professor Daisy Sheung-yuen Ng, Visiting Assistant Professor at Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who contributed a wonderful written appreciation of the work of Li Ang, and the support and encouragement from Professor Howard Goldblatt, Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Finally, the project gratefully acknowledges the research work done by our MIT student, Charles Huang, and the support of Li Ang and Vien Chen who provided vital information and made the video interview possible.