Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A ll of us wish to thank the many people, too numerous to mention, who helped and encouraged us in our research and writing. In addition, each of us has the following special thanks: I am extremely grateful to Amber M. D. Joy and Solveig Arnold, who opened another wonderful world for me. I would very much like to dedicate this book to my dear friend Mr. Edwin E. Williams. bamo ayi I want to thank Ren Hai, who first had the idea for this book, as well as those who read and commented on the manuscript—Gail Hershatter , Robert Weller, and Hill Gates. My Chinese mentors—Tong Enzheng and Deng Yaozong—are gone now, but my gratitude and my memory of them continue to hover over the project. In addition, I want to give special thanks to my wife Barbara Harrell, who not only materially improved the book by her careful and critical reading but supported me in so many ways while I was doing both the fieldwork and the writing. stevan harrell xiii I first want to thank my friend Meiguo Muga, from whom I have learned so much since we first met in 1991. Seeing him on his visits to Yangjuan, I often think that if the strong and weak of the world, the poor and rich, the educated and the uneducated could live together like this, “I,” “you,” and “he” would merge, and we would have peace and harmony. I also want to thank Muga’s wife Barbara, who took such pains to make sure that I, “blind in English,” ate well and felt at home during my time in Seattle. Finally, I want to thank Professors Bamo Ayi and Bamo Qubumo, scholars of deep learning who were so considerate to me during our fieldwork together; one is indeed fortunate to have teachers like them. ma lunzy xiv acknowledgments FIELDWORK CONNECTIONS ...