Preface

Summary

This book is a record of the intellectual adventures of a network of researchers who were fortunate enough to have embarked together in their exploration of culture processes.

The journey began in August 2002, when the volume editors left Hong Kong for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and joined the Social-Personality-Organizational Psychology program at the university at the same time. Angela joined the program as a first-year doctoral student and Ying-Yi and C-Y as new faculty members. The University of Illinois is well known for its tradition of cultural research. Although the founder of this tradition, Harry Triandis, had retired by the time we arrived, he nonetheless was available to provide us invaluable direction and guidance.