A 1991 SUNY-Geneseo Presidential Summer Fellowship facilitated
my trip to China that year. A grant from Woodrow Wilson Center's
Cold War History Project contributed to another trip to China in
1992. The Sponsored Research Office at SUNY-Geneseo, headed by
Dr. Douglas Harke, provided several grants to cover research expens-
es related to this study. In Spring 1993, a Norwegian Nobel Institute
fellowship not only released me from teaching and allowed me to
devote several months to the revision of the manuscript but also, and
more important, offered me a scholarly home replete of friendship
and intellectual inspiration. My thanks go to Inger-guri Flögstad,
Torill Johansen, Elisabeth Karesen, Anne Kjelling, Sigrid Langebrekke,
and Arne Storheim.

A large portion of chapter 2 was published in the Summer 1993
issue of Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, and part of chapter 4
appeared in the March 1993 China Quarterly. Both journals have gra-
ciously offered permission for me to reuse the published parts in this
book. For both, I am very grateful.

The editors at Columbia University Press deserve great credit for
their assistance in improving the original manuscript. In particular I
would like to thank Kate Wittenberg for her encouragement at differ-
ent stages of this project and Leslie Bialler for his skillful copyediting.

I would also like to thank Raymond Mayo of Computing and
Media Services at SUNY-Geneseo for preparing the maps.

The greatest debt I owe to my father. In addition to his love and
constant concerns for his only son's health, he devoted much of his
after-retirement time to helping his son collect Chinese source mate-
rials. By now, even many of my Chinese colleagues are surprised by
his knowledge of books and journal articles about China and the
Korean War. I therefore dedicate the book to my father and the mem-
ory of my mother.

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