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Acknowledgments My interest in China began when I was a ten- and eleven-year-old in Beijing .After placing fifth in the city in hand grenade throwing, I was hooked! I thank Shi Laoshi, my teacher at Chinese public elementary school, who first taught me how to memorize and recite Chinese stories—and how to get along with my North Korean classmates. My interest in Chinese history arose through trading stamps with the Chinese collectors who gathered outside the now-long-gone stamp store in Wangfujing in downtown Beijing. Why was the man sitting next to Mao in so many stamps always defaced? Perhaps it was the tragic fate of Lin Biao, Mao’s Cultural Revolution successor turned “traitor,” that first aroused my interest in face! In high school in Washington, D.C., Morris Abrams taught me far more than geometry, and Sue Ikenbery taught me that there was the American past, and then there were conflicting histories about that past. Given my interest in biology and experience living in China, my high school yearbook predicted that in the future I would “teach dolphins to speak Chinese.” They got the teaching part right. At Middlebury College, I thank Nicholas Cliªord and Hiroshi Miyagi for passing on their passion for Asian history and philosophy, and especially Clara Yu, whose intellectual and personal support have been invaluable over many years. During my junior year abroad at Beijing University , Coach Yuan and my men’s volleyball teammates taught me much more than how to spike. At Michigan, the late Michael Oksenberg inspired an excitement about studying China; Donald Munro provided a model for more than just an academic career; and Qian Ning’s generos201 ity and humor in guiding me through the maze of twentieth-century intellectual history motivated me to further scholarship. The origins of this particular book, however, are to be found in the political science and Chinese studies communities at Berkeley. First and foremost, Kevin O’Brien has been a good friend and mentor ever since I returned from fieldwork in China in 1997. His support was invaluable in bringing this book to its fruition. Annie Zhang and the Center for Chinese Studies Library staª at Berkeley not only aided in my research, but created a home away from home for an overworked Ph.D. student.Thanks also to Professor Ken Jowitt, whose fire for teaching has inspired my own lectures here in Colorado. I began researching this book in 1996–1997 as a visiting fellow at the Center for Japanese Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. I thank Director Zhang Yunling and the entire center staª for their hospitality. I greatly enjoyed our “badminton diplomacy”! The Chinese and Western friends who helped me with my research over many beers in Beijing should be the coauthors of this volume. To the University of California O‹ce of the President thanks is due for the Pacific Rim Research Fellowship that supported my research abroad. For intellectual and emotional support during the writing phase in Berkeley, thanks to Wang Boqing, Daphne Anshel, John Emerson, Elizabeth Rudd, and Gretchen Jones, my “dissertation partner.” Mônica, a wedding in Brazil, and a honeymoon in Europe more than inspired the final push to finish. I conducted the bulk of the research and writing of this book as a postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. Director Ned Lebow and colleagues there, including Rick Herrman, Marilyn Brewer, Emannuelle Castano, Peter Furia, Maria Fanis, and Ted Hopf, provided intellectual stimulation, support , and camaraderie. Paul Cohen, Josh Fogel, Ed Friedman, and David Shambaugh commented on portions of earlier versions of the manuscript, and provided much-needed encouragement and support. Colleagues at the University of Colorado have provided a supportive and stimulating atmosphere in which to complete the book. In particular , I would like to thank Sven Steinmo, David Maple, Steve Chan, Colin Dueck, Roland Paris, andTimWeston. Stan Rosen, with whom I coedited State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation , also provided advice and good cheer as I completed this book. I thank four anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism and generous encouragement. At the University of California Press, many thanks are also owed to acquisitions editor Reed Malcolm (who deserves combat pay), development editor Doug Abrams, production editor 202 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [44.222.175.73] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 10:58 GMT) Suzanne Knott, copyeditor Laura Schattschneider, and publicist Alex...