John C. Y. Wang is Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies of the Department of Asian Languages at Stanford University. Sue-mei Wu is associate teaching professor of the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. Shaoyu Jiang is professor of Chinese of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. Frank F. S. Hsueh is professor emeritus of Chinese linguistics and Classical chinese at the Ohio State University.