ABSTRACT

I confess that I was something of a Potter skeptic until well into 2003.1 I had long recognized that the books had a certain charm, yet I was somewhat mystified regarding the worldwide fanaticism that the Potter series had evoked. While in Taiwan in July of 2003 I purchased the Chinese translation of the first book on a whim. At midnight on September 28th of the same year I was standing in line at Eslite Bookstore in Taipei eagerly awaiting the release of the new Chinese translation of the fifth book. It was only then that I admitted I was hooked.