Acknowledgements

This volume is a product of a special project funded by Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, under the general editorships of Shou-hsin Teng, formerly Dept. of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently with the Institute of Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei and Feng I-chien, Chinese Dept. and Director of Chinese Language Center, Tunghai University.

The team which undertook the project consisted of the following members:

Su Wen-ling University of Illinois, Chicago
Luh Hsyng Nelson University of California, Irvine
Lo Sun Perry University of Puget Sound, Washington
Andrew Abel University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Feng I-chien Chinese Language Center, Tunghai
Shou-hsin Teng National Taiwan Normal University

all of whom are affiliated with Tunghai University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst in some special way. While in the process of compilation, Taiwan Today was used by the students attending UMass-at-Tunghai Summer Program. We are grateful for their and their teachers' feedback and suggestions. The authors are also grateful for Chih-ping Chang Sobelman's generosity in providing an extensive list of corrections and refinements included in this printing.