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Firstly, I am grateful to Paul French, editor of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai, Hong Kong University Press China Monograph series for his enthusiasm and kindness, and commitment to the pleasure of reading. I am grateful too, to Michael Duckworth, publisher at Hong Kong University Press, for undertaking this project, and to May Holdsworth, for her patient attention to the manuscript, and to Jessica Wang for attending to the details of production. I extend a special thanks to the Royal Asiatic Society China in Shanghai, for financial assistance towards the production of this book, as well as for providing a forum for scholarly exchange, support and friendship. I would like to thank the following people and institutions for their kind assistance and generosity in making available to me documents, correspondence and images: Elinor Pearlstein, the Art Institute of Chicago; Laurie Dalton, Acadia University Art Gallery, Nova Scotia; David Kessler, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Alessandro Conficoni, The Bridgeman Art Library, London; Dorothea Mordan, Chandler Designs, Woodsboro, MD; The Chicago History Museum; Susan Miller, The Cleveland Museum of Art; Acknowledgements x Acknowledgements Irene Scarratt, Charlotte County Archives, New Brunswick; Lea Osborne, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University; Rachel Woody, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Washington DC; Susan Halpert and Emily Walhout, Houghton Library, Harvard University; Harry Chancey, Kingsbrae Arms Relais & Chateaux, St. Andrews, New Brunswick; Ingrid Larsen; Andrew Loutit; Isa Schaff, Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts; Laurie Ellis, The Schlesinger Library, Harvard University; Joan MacPhail, Laird Books, Regina, Saskatchewan; The Asian Division of the Library of Congress; Sylvie Rollason-Cass, The Newberry Library, Chicago; Eric Politzer; the staff of the Shanghai Library Bibliotheca Zikawei; Paige Mann, University of Redlands, California; Douglas Doe, RISD Archives, Rhode Island; Jessica O’Toole, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library, New York; Simon Elliot, Manuscripts Division, University of California, Los Angeles; Christine Colburn, University of Chicago Library; Rebecca Schulte, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Kate Hutchens, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan; Robert Mintz, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Craig Hadley and Nicollete Meister, Beloit College, Wisconsin. In addition, I would like to thank the following people for advice, encouragement, and support: Katharine Burnett, Kathleen Campbell, Ian Gow, Peter Hibbard, Judy Hoechner, Li Tiangang, Chloe Li, Liu Wei, Audrey and Ewan Macbeth, Mike Nethercott, Lynn Pan, Peter Sanger, David Sullivan, and Anne Witchard. Lastly, I owe a debt of thanks to my husband and sons to whom this book is dedicated, and without whom there might never have been a China adventure: Byron, Ewan and Owen Shen. ...

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