Acknowledgement
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This project consumed huge amount of work, research and dedication. Still, implementation would not have been possible if I did not have the support from many individuals, including this project’s assistant, AVA colleagues, our library colleague and her professional team, and the members of Hong Kong Ex libris Association. Therefore, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all of them.

First of all, I am thankful to Hong Kong Baptist University Library, in particular, Kendall Crilly the University Librarian who created such an opportunity for me to create a project of such a little-known art in Hong Kong. Without doubt, I am also very thankful to both their financial and technical support for creating the bookplate database and website. I especially thank Rebekah Wong for providing necessary guidance concerning the project implementation and technical issues. She has been helping me since the first submission of the project proposal in 2017. She was very patient and efficient who monitored the progress of this project all the way through. Without her, this project won’t be able to launch smoothly as planned.

I have to express my appreciation especially to Malou Hung who is a renowned bookplate artist for sharing her pearls of wisdom with us during the course of this research. She has provided many crucial data for this website project. She, her husband Albert Yip, and the current HKEA’s chairlady Clara Hung have been very helpful. They provided all the necessary information and even extra support for us. Other HKEA members as well as artists including Yu Yuanhong, Samuel Wong, Alex Siu Chung Ho, Tin Wong, Cheng Taigo, Albert Yip, and my AVA colleague and artist Chan An Gee for their time doing the interview. Without their contribution, superior knowledge, expertise and experience in making bookplates, the database of the website would not be such fruitful and informative, and their support has been essential.

Furthermore, I would also like to express my sincere thanks towards the technical support for recording and editing many interview videos by Manfred Siu. He made professional interview videos for this project.

Last but not least, I am very grateful especially to Andy Cheng who was the project assistant of this bookplate project. He has been a very diligent researcher who conducted interviews, prepared the interview transcripts and translations, wrote all the bookplates’ bilingual entries, and the major portion of the website textual content including the publication list. He has been working super hard on the publication research. His effort made this project happen and contributed a lot to the history of Hong Kong bookplate research. While I was in a very critical medical condition last year, he moderated this project and completed the details. Hence, I could focus on research guidance, content verification, editing and improving the texts, liaising with bookplate artists and related organizations.