Fontaine Lien
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE The Intrusion Story and Lessons From the Fantastic: A Cross-Cultural Study A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature by Fontaine Lien December 2014 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Lisa Raphals, Chairperson Dr. Heidi Brevik-Zender Dr. Rob Latham Copyright by Fontaine Lien 2014 The Dissertation of Fontaine Lien is approved: Committee Chairperson University of California, Riverside Acknowledgments First, I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to my dissertation committee: Dr. Lisa Raphals, Dr. Heidi Brevik-Zender, and Dr. Rob Latham. Thank you for your unwavering support even when I felt I could not continue, and for patiently guiding me with your expertise. I am grateful to the University of California, Riverside, which supported my graduate studies with a Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship. I am also grateful to the professors and mentors at that institution, who have taught me so much: Dr. Michelle Bloom, Dr. Johannes Endres, Dr. Kelle Truby, Shuliang Hsu, Dr. Han-Hua Chao, Dr. Sabine Doran, Dr. John Namjun Kim, Dr. Stephanie Hammer, Reiko Sato, Dr. Georg M. Gugelberger, Dr. Yenna Wu, Dr. Perry Link, and Dr. Yang Ye. In addition, special mention needs to go to my professors from the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. David Schaberg and Dr. Miranda Johnson-Haddad, who got me started on this path. I would like to thank my parents, who were unfailing supportive and never prodded me to pursue a more traditionally lucrative career. I would also like to thank my constant friends, especially Michelle Tawada, Annabelle Chou, Chenshu Zhou, Sue Hertzog, Hongjian Wang, Chris Huang, Flannery Wilson, and Anne Savitch, who remain unwavering despite seeing me at my worst, who believed in me when I did not.
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