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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Completion of this book would be impossible without help and support from many people. I am privileged to have had a superb committee guiding me through my dissertation at the University of California, San Diego: Peter Cowhey , Susan Shirk, Lawrence Broz, Roger Gordon, Stephan Haggard, and Barry Naughton. They have provided tremendous guidance and support. Susan Shirk and Stephan Haggard deserve special thanks for their unbelievable patience in reading many drafts of my work. I am grateful to many other scholars and teachers who have contributed to my intellectual growth. They include Tai­Ming Cheung, Gordon Hanson, Miles Kahler, Thad Kousser, David Lake, Victor Magagna, Eddy Malesky, Megumi Naoi, Phil Roeder, Matthew Shugart, Barbara Walter, and Langche Zeng. I have benefited greatly from the stimulating academic affinities and mutual support among my fellow graduate students at UCSD. I am also grateful to Yvonne Lu and her family for their warm friendship and support. As this project grew from a dissertation into a book, many colleagues read various chapters and gave me helpful suggestions. At Harvard University, I thank Regina Abrami, Alastair Iain Johnston, Jeffrey Frieden, and Michael Hiscox. I also thank Ron Suleski and Wen-­ hao Tien for their excellent administrative support. I am grateful for the friendship and mentorship of my colleagues at the University of Connecticut. I would especially like to acknowledge the help of Oksan Bayulgen, Mark Boyer, Betty Hansen, Shareen Hertel, Peter Kingstone, Jeffrey Ladewig, Jeremy Pressman, and the late Howard Reiter. I thank Jennifer Fontanella and Sally Keelan for their very able administrative assistance. At various stages of the project, many other scholars gave me helpful feedback. They include Tim Buthe, Tom Christenson, Tim Frye, Yasheng Huang, Nathan Jensen, James Kung, Kun-­ chin Lin, Borje Ljunggren, Pierre x Acknowledgments Landry, Scott MacDonald, Victor Shih, Aseema Sinha, Erik Wibbels, Lynn White, Hiroki Takeuchi, and David Zweig. During my numerous research trips to China, I have received lots of help from my friends and colleagues. They include Fu Jun, Li Xuefei, Mei Yanchuan, Qiu Jianguo, Wang Dong, Tang Shiping, Yan Xuetong, Zhang Jianjun, Zhao Xiaojian, Zou Lan, and many others. I thank Aradhna Aggarwal, Ravindran Bhuvaneswari, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Rob Jenkins, and Jaivir Singh for their generous help during my field trip and interviews in India. Financial and institutional support for this book was provided by the following institutions: at the University of Connecticut, the Department of Political Science at the Stamford campus; at Harvard University, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Princeton-­ Harvard China and the World Program; at the University of California, San Diego, the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Political Science. I also thank the East Asia Institute in South Korea and the University Service Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for supporting my research endeavors. At the University of Michigan Press, I am deeply grateful to Melody Herr, whose support and encouragement motivated me to make this book as good as possible. I also thank Susan Cronin and Kevin Rennells for their invaluable assistance in bringing the manuscript through to publication. I also thank Lisa Martin and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticisms and suggestions that improved the final product. Chapter 2 is a replication and extension of an article that originally appeared in International Interactions (Zheng 2011). Chapter 7 is derived from a collaborated article (Haggard and Zheng 2013). I thank coauthor Stephan Haggard for allowing me to include our joint work. Undertaking this arduous journey would have been impossible without the support of my family. I am indebted to my parents and in-­ laws, who have given unconditional support to my academic career in the United States. I dedicate this book to the memory of my late father, whose courageous fight against illness will always be a source of inspiration and encouragement. I also thank my brother, Zheng Hui, for refreshing my hometown memory every time I went back to Chengdu. Finally, two people deserve the deepest thanks above all: my wife, Xiaowei, and my daughter, Nanxi. Xiaowei is an amazing wife, mother, and best friend. She has never lost confidence in me, and she always cheered me Acknowledgments xi up when the writing became an insurmountable pain. Nanxi was born while I was writing the dissertation. Now she is old enough to write her notes on my manuscript and challenge me with her riddles...