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xi acknowledgments Professor Shu Guang Zhang guided my study of modern diplomatic history at the University of Maryland, College Park. As my mentor, Professor Zhang encouraged me to explore U.S-China relations, shared many Chinese documents from his own collection with me, read my manuscript at different stages, and offered extensive comments and suggestions. I am indebted to him. I also wish to thank other professors at the University of Maryland, especially Keith Olson, Jon Sumida, James Gao, Marlene Mayo, Deborah Cai, Arthur Eckstein, Margaret Pearson, George Yaney, and Sandy Cochran, who gave me many useful suggestions during the course of this project. I would like to extend my appreciation to the Department of History, the Graduate School, and the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs at the University of Maryland for their support. Since I started teaching at Long Island University in 2003, Professor Joram Warmund, my department chair, has served as a source of friendship and unfailing support. The travel grant from the Richard L. Conolly College of Long Island University enabled me to travel to various academic conferences to test my hypotheses and ¤ndings. I am deeply grateful to the following Chinese scholars: Shen Zhihua, Li Danhui, Zhang Baijia, Niu Jun, Zhang Yeliang, Wang Fan, Niu Dayong, Tao Wenzhao, Zhang Qingmin, and Ding Bangquan. They kindly talked with me during my research trip to China in 2002 and guided me to some important Chinese materials. I also bene¤ted from the commentaries of Professors Keith Nelson, James Matray, William Burr, Mitch Lerner, Chen Jian, Xiaobing Li, Qiang Zhai, and Tao Peng, when early versions of several chapters were presented at various conferences. An earlier version of chapter 8 was published in the spring 2002 issue of the journal American Review of China Studies; a shorter version of chapters 6 and xii acknowledgments 7 was also included in Xiaobing Li and Zuohong Pan, eds., Taiwan in the Twenty-¤rst Century (copyright © 2003 by University Press of America, reprinted by permission of University Press of America); and a shorter version of chapter 5 appeared in the June 2005 issue of Diplomacy and Statecraft. They have all been substantially revised. I also owe an intellectual debt to the many scholars from whose works I have drawn. I will let my notes and bibliography serve as partial acknowledgment. I wish to acknowledge the help of several archivists and librarians at the National Archives, the University of Maryland, and Long Island University, especially Ingrid Wang, Paul Tremblay, and Lisa Burwell. Alisa Yalan-Murphy of Long Island University helped prepare camera-ready maps and photos for the book and offered useful suggestions on jacket design. William Burr of the National Security Archive generously pointed to and shared with me some vital documents. Writing the book in my second language would have been much harder without the encouragement and help of many American friends. Ambassador Gary Matthews, who had a distinguished career in Foreign Service and experiences in negotiating with the Russians, read several chapters and provided unique personal observations on negotiations. Dr. Gerald Bernstein, a neuroscientist by training, but with great interest in East Asian affairs, read every chapter at different stages and provided useful suggestions. Frances Pitlick, Hugh and Colleen Pettis, and Len Lazarick read and edited an early version of the manuscript. I am grateful for their friendship and assistance. Needless to say, any errors or omissions that may be contained in this book are completely my responsibility. The editors at Indiana University Press deserve great credit for making the entire editorial and production process extremely smooth, particularly Robert J. Sloan, Dawn Ollila, Miki Bird, and Jane Quinet. Carol A. Kennedy did a great job of copyediting, saving me from many inaccuracies and making this a much better book. This book is dedicated to my parents, Xia Changgeng and Lu Xiuhe, who taught me the importance of history and helped collect many useful Chinese language materials; and to my wife, Ma Qianli, and daughter, Xia Hongyi, who have lived through this whole process and sacri¤ced holidays and weekends while I was working on this project. I owe a great deal to them. Their love, care, and tolerance have helped me overcome many dif¤culties and frustrations during the writing of this book. I also thank my brother-in-law Ma Qianshan, who offered generous assistance during my research trip to Beijing in 2002. Yafeng Xia Brooklyn, New York October 2005 ...