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forthcoming book. Both provided me with important comments and suggestions. Lynn<br />

Dodd and Adam Smith read through and provided me with extensive comments on a<br />

chapter on the history of writing that did not make it into the final version. To all those<br />

who sacrificed time for their own work and/or time with their families in order to help me<br />

with my dissertation, I offer my humble thanks.<br />

My parents have supported me in every possible way throughout my education and,<br />

even when my interests turned to long dead civlizations and the most obscure of<br />

academic disciplines, their support for my work never wavered. I could never have<br />

finished (or even started) without them. Thanks as well to my brother Greg, Julie and the<br />

kids for all kinds of encouragement big and small.<br />

I met Grace about the same time that I started writing my dissertation and she has<br />

endured its difficulties and its distraction throughout our courtship, engagement and<br />

marriage with patience and good humor and love. Besides answering questions about<br />

Korean and Chinese at all hours of the day and night, she held me together when I was<br />

flying apart and restored me when there was nothing left. I was inspired by her in more<br />

ways than she could possibly know and I would never have finished without her.<br />

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