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Acknowledgments First and foremost, the editors are grateful to Elisabeth Nichols , daughter of Ludmelia Ralston, for the gift to Fleur Yano of the collection of letters from Flora Jan to Ludmelia, which form the body of this book. They thank Judy Yung for encouraging this project and for locating a number of published poems and stories by Flora Jan. To find most of Jan’s published works in the Fresno Evening Herald, San Francisco Examiner, Chinese Students’ Monthly, Shanghai Herald and Peking Chronicle, they are indebted to Andrea Dickenson and Marjeanne Blinn of the Palos Verdes Library for obtaining interlibrary loans of microfilm from the Library of Congress and from numerous university libraries. Fleur Yano thanks the Hoover Institute of Stanford University, California State Library in Sacramento, Special Collections at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago Historical Society, California State University Fresno, Fresno Historical Society, Fresno County Library, and National Archives and Records Administration in Laguna Nigel, California, for hospitality and for archival materials. Also she gratefully acknowledges helpful correspondence from Clark Evans of the Library of Congress; from Joanna Browning of the British Museum; from Gwen Pattison of the National Archives; and from Michael Woods, Claudine Davie, and Linda Raymond of the British Library. Patricia Mehlberg , a friend, personally visited the British Library to obtain a copy of Jan’s story in Real Detective Tales. Another friend, Edgar Freud, visited the New York City Public Library to obtain Jan’s article in China Critic. Fiore Ai, Fleur’s sister, accompanied Fleur to libraries in Chicago. Thanks are also due to Al Yano, Fleur’s husband, for companionship on library trips to Palo Alto, Sacramento, and Fresno. Malcolm Kao, a consultant, did the initial layout and many retypings of the work and has provided valuable technical advice. We are immensely grateful to Laurie Matheson, acquisitions editor of the University of Illinois Press, for encouragement and for shepherding the project through several stages of development. During the course of a year-long correspondence about the book, she has become for us an advocate, a critic, and a friend. We appreciate her many helpful suggestions . We also thank Anne Rogers for her meticulous copyediting of the manuscript, thus giving fine finishing touches to the work. xiv Acknowledgments ...

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