Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas

Acknowledgments

UWP: Kendall: Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet page ix ix Acknowledgments Although this work is based on real-life events, I have changed names and other identifying details of ships, businesses, and people. Thanks to my friend Margie Wachtel for reading the manuscript and telling me what was wrong with it, and for doing so with grace and manners that amount to diplomacy. Thanks to Susan Shanshan Qian for giving me Chinese acupuncture to heal my repetitive stress injury and Pinyin words to heal my translations. Thanks to Raphael Kadushin and Sheila Moermond at the University of Wisconsin Press for treating me, and this book, so well. Finally, thanks and love to my partner, Nicole, for respecting a closed door and humoring a writer’s moods. UWP: Kendall: Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet page xblank UWP: Kendall: Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet page 1 Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet UWP: Kendall: Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet page 2blank ...