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Design by Scribe, Inc. Without their support and contribution, fieldwork for this book would have been impossible. Over the years of my research and writing on karaoke bar hostesses and clients in Chinese sex industry, I accumulated a great deal of debt to my professors, colleagues, and friends. I want to extend my special thanks to Evelyne Micollier. I benefited from her generous, thorough, and incisive comments that have sharpened the arguments and improved the manuscript.
I thank her for the time and energy she spent in reading the manuscript. I thank her for the careful work with the book. I thank her for the helpful and constructive suggestions. I thank her for the warm encouragement and support.
Her creative and keen comments have helped me enhance the quality of the book. Kelly, Harold W. Scheffler, and Helen Siu, for their continuous and incessant support of my professional development after I graduated.
I would also like to thank Susan Brownell for her persistent care and support of my professional development. Through setbacks, they have always showed me great empathy, support, care, and faith, and offered me helpful professional advice. I thank them for having taught me, supported me, and encouraged me more than they could realize, for which I am forever grateful. Hal Scheffler was especially enthusiastic and interested in this research.
