Acknowledgements

This collection comes out of a meeting convened in December of 2017 at the Australian Centre of China in the World, The Australian National University, Canberra, which combined a conference on the cross-cultural study of bodily fluids with a workshop on image-based storytelling. The meeting could not have taken place without the generous support from two grants from the American Council of Learned Societies funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, and from the Asia Pacific Innovation Program of The Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. We are deeply grateful to the Asian Studies Monograph series editor, Craig Reynolds, for the many hours devoted to guiding the collection through the publication process under a very tight timeline. Special thanks are also due to Emily Tinker and Teresa Prowse of ANU Press for accepting this new format for publication, and for expertly handling the challenges posed by it. The production of the volume was funded by a publication subsidy from the American Council of Learned Societies, and a copyediting grant from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University.