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ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  Zhang Lian-hong and I, Hua-ling Hu, are indebted to China’s Second Historical Archives of Nanjing, the Center for Studies on the Nanjing Massacre of Nanjing Normal University, and the Disciples of Christ Historical Society of Nashville, Tennessee, for providing valuable source materials, photographs, and maps. We are also in debt to Dr. Wen-husan Chang, Cindy Chan, and other members of the Association for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia (AOHWA), based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for their generous donation to the subvention fund for the publication of our book I would like to express my deep gratitude to Minnie Vautrin’s niece, Emma Lyon, and grandniece, Mary Lou Kniffen, for their valuable gifts of Vautrin’s artifacts, papers, and photos and for their friendship for all these years. During the compilation of this book, I have incurred many debts. Dr. Terry Mathis patiently worked with me, paragraph by paragraph, while I was translating Tsen Shui-fang’s diary into English. Bonnie Smith kindly spent numerous hours in critiquing and editing the manuscript. McGarvey Ice repeatedly furnished sources and photos of Vautrin deposited at the Disciple of Christ Historical Society . Martha Smalley swiftly responded to bibliographical queries on Vautrin’s papers archived at Yale Divinity School Library. Charlotte Hamilton of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia of New York cordially answered a request for permission to use a copyrighted reference published by the United Board for Christian College in China more than a half-century ago. Cindy Chan offered Vautrin’s pictures from her collection and contributed many fine ideas toward the publication of the manuscript. Walter Ko supplied a vital, out-of-print reference book on Ginling College and other publishing information on the Rape of Nanking. Dr. T. C. Peng bestowed insightful suggestions and encouragement. To all of them, I am immensely grateful. Meanwhile, I am equally grateful to two noted historians, Dr. Richard Chu +X)URQWPDWWHULQGG $0 X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and Dr. Joyce Lebra, for their generous help and scholarly advice. Finally, I should like to thank my husband, Dr. Chia-lun Hu, for guiding me through the intricacies of computers and procuring books from various libraries for me. Zhang Lian-hong would like to express his sincere gratitude to Ginling College of Nanjing Normal University, to Ma Zhen-du and Guo Bi-qiang of China’s Second Historical Archives, as well as to Liu Fa-quan and Ma Xiaoyan of Nanjing Normal University for their assistance. Last but not least, we must thank our publisher, Southern Illinois University Press, and its devoted staff members Barb Martin and Kathleen Kageff. We especially thank Dr. Karl Kageff, editor-in-chief of the Press, for his profound interest in our project and generous help. We are grateful to John Wilson for superbly copyediting our manuscript. It is a privilege to work with them. +X)URQWPDWWHULQGG $0 ...

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