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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The research and preparation of this manuscript took me across three continents , on a journey in the course of which I accumulated a great debt of gratitude to many individuals. In the United States, William H. (“Bill”) Frederick, Charles Alexander, Alonzo Hamby, Donald Jordan, Gary Hawes, Benedict Anderson, Hwa-wei Lee, Lian The-Mulliner, Kent Mulliner, Jeff Ferrier, Suharni Soemarmo, Kohar and Minar Rony, Tsing Yuan, Liren Zheng, Philip Kuhn, Adam McKeown, Michael Szonyi, and Min Zhou gave me invaluable help and support. So, in Asia, did Alan K.L. Chan, Wong Yoon Wah, Cheng Lim-keat, Lily Kong, Leo Suryadinata, Tony Reid, Lee Chee Hiang, Huang Jianli, Chen Chunsheng, Liu Zhiwei, Wang Hui, Li Bozhong, Li Minghuan, Fan Ke, Zhuang Guotu, Mizuno Kosuke, Shimizu Hiromu, Kaoru Sugihara, Carol Hau, Jojo Patricio Abinales, Junko Koizumi, Noboru Ishikawa, Yumi Kitamura, Masaaki Okamoto, Tomoko Shiroyama, Hideaki Shiroyama, Liao Chiyang, Wang Wei, Chen Laixing, Iijima Wataru, Naoto Kagotani, Matsuura Masataka, Kawashima Shin, Fujio Hara, I. Wibowo, James Chin Kong, Geoff Wade, and Koh Young Hun. So, in Europe, did Go Gien Tjwan, Mary Somers-Heidhues, Alistair Ulph, Steve Parker, Qi Luo, Michael Charney, Atsuko Naono, Ramses Amer, Xiaobing Wang, and Masako Ikegami. During the early and crucial period of research, Zhan Xiaojuan offered unflinching moral support and steady encouragement, for which I remain grateful. I am immensely indebted, intellectually and personally, to Wang Gungwu, Gregor Benton, Bill Frederick, Takashi Shiraishi, Takeshi Hamashita , and Ezra F. Vogel, who provided expert advice and unwavering support at key stages of my research career, including while preparing to write this book. I did research in the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (which started, from 2004 onward, declassifying its archives and making them available to the researchers), the Southeast Asian Collections of Alden Library at Ohio University, the Asian Collections of Kroch Library at Cornell University, the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, the British Library, the National Library of Indonesia, the Chinese Library of the National University of Singapore, the Library of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University, the National Library xi of China, the library and archival collection of the Central Party School, Peking University Library, and the Library of the Nanyang Research Institute at Xiamen University. During my fieldwork in Southeast Asia, China, the Netherlands, and the United States, many individuals graciously shared with me their personal and professional experiences through many hours of oral-history interviews, which significantly enriched my understanding of Sino-Indonesian exchanges in the Sukarno era, and I owe them special thanks: Soeto Meisen, Chen Xiaru, Tong Djoe, Oey Tong Ping, Chen Wenxian, Huang Shuhai, Chen Lishui, Huang Aling, Huang You, Jiang Baolin, Lin Liushun, Shannu, Weng Xihui, and Zhang Ailing. Some of China’s leading Indonesianists — who were born and educated in the archipelago before returning to the PRC in the 1960s — provided me with unique insights into the cultural and human dimensions of the changing Sino-Indonesian relationship: Zhou Nanjing, Liang Yingming, Ju Sanyuan, Liang Liji, and Huang Yuanhuan. I would like to acknowledge the following funding agencies and institutions for their generous financial support for my archival, library and field research: the Henry Luce Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Lee Foundation, the Universities’ China Committee in London, and the University of Manchester, where I had a precious opportunity to contribute to institution building in my capacity as the founding Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies between 2006 and 2010. I have spent most of my time over the past years meeting the new challenge of setting up a History Department at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University . A generous research grant from NTU (M58100049) enabled me to complete the final updating of this manuscript. I am delighted that this book is to be published jointly by NUS Press and Kyoto University Press, two institutions to which I had the privilege of being formally affiliated for more than a decade. I thank Paul Kratoska, Yoko Hayami, Lena Qua, and Mario Ivan Lopez for facilitating the publication . I am grateful to the two anonymous referees for their thorough and constructive feedback, which helped improve the manuscript. Needless to say, I alone am responsible for the interpretations, ideas, and any remaining errors. I dedicate this book to my mother, Lian Qingbo, and to the memory...

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