version of this work are Mark Berkson, Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Shari
Ruei-hua Epstein, Eric L. Hutton, Paul Kjellberg, T. C. Kline III,
Pauline Chen Lee, Joel Sahleen, Edward Gilman "Ted" Slingerland III,
and Mark Ty Unno.

The University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies provided
generous support for this project. Robert Rama provided a great deal of
help in the preparation of the manuscript and also offered numerous
helpful suggestions on its contents. Meera Dash offered careful and much
needed editing and very helpful suggestions regarding the format and
layout of the volume. I feel a special debt of gratitude to Deborah Wilkes,
who encouraged me to undertake this revision and expansion of my
original work and facilitated this endeavor in many ways. The support,
criticism, guidance, and advice I received from these and others has
helped me to improve the current volume significantly, and I hope that it
proves worthy of their care and attention.

1.	Readers may be familiar with Mengzi through his Latinized name "Mencius," but in this volume I will employ the former. Similarly, "Confucius" is a Latinization of Kongfuzi "Great Teacher Kong," but I will use his most common Chinese name, Kongzi.

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