Grateful acknowledgement is made to the many persons and institutions, listed in greater detail in the preface, which have contributed to the success of this research effort. Speical appreciation is due to the scholars who wrote the chapters and, through intensive discussion, brought them to their present enriched and integrated final form.

The philosophy faculty of Cheng Chi University, under the direction of Prof. Vincent Shen, contributed rich scholarship. The Psychology Department of Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, played a central role. Its extended development of the implications of phenomenology for psychology as a human science was the major resource for this exploration.

The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation and the James A. McLeans supported this effort. The students of Cheng Chi University were most helpful in the implementation of the encounter of Chinese and Western scholars. The resulting manuscript has been brought into final form by the devoted efforts of Hu Yeping, Linda Perez, Nancy Graham and Carol Dupré. Deep gratitude is extended to all.