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. -x- |