Adrian Tien was Associate Professor in Chinese Studies (Linguistics) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His co-authors, also at Trinity, are Lorna Carson, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, and Ning Jiang, Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies.

• 1. What Is All the Fuss About?.- 2. An Anatomy of the Chinese Offensive Lexicon.- 3. Collecting and Categorizing Offensive Words in Chinese.- 4. Four Representative Offensive Items from the Chinese Lexicon.- 5. Offensive Words in Chinese Dialects.- 6. Offensive Words in Chinese Cyberspace.- 7. Offensive Language and First Language Acquisition of Chinese.- 8. Offensive Language and Sociocultural Homogeneity in Singapore: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective.- 9. So, What Was All the Fuss About?.