his enthusiasm this volume would be far more bland. He has also been kind enough to allow me to quote material from his new series of interviews (see ''Musical Chairmen").
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Chris Buckley's scholastic (and morbid) interest in Mao has been a great encouragement, and he generously allowed me full access to his own library of recent Mao-related works.
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Funding from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies of ANU made it possible for me to collect research materials and Mao memorabilia, as well as to revisit Mao's birthplace in Shaoshan in 1992 at the height of the new Mao Cult. I am, as ever, extremely grateful to my colleagues and friends at ANU for their constant interest in and support of my work.
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Richard Gordon, Mao groupie and boss at Long Bow in Boston, was crucial in making this book a visual success. The Long Bow Archive provided many of the illustrations in the following pages and Richard and Kimberly Roberts took the time from the more pressing task of making a documentary film to photograph many of these. Long Bow itself indulged and succored me as I finished off this project.
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Carma Hinton and Nora Chang, Claire Roberts, as well as John Minford, Jean Hsiung of the Universities Services Centre, Neil Thompson of Qantas, Gloria Davies, Peter Micic, Ruth Waller, Nicholas Jose, Zoë Wang, Susan Lambert, Nancy Berliner, Jonathan Hutt, Y.S. Chan, Tsoi Wing-mui of
Open Magazine,
Wang Youshen, Kam Louie, W.J.F. Jenner, Xu Jilin, Chen Xing, Dai Qing, Zhang Hongtu, Vivienne Tam of East Wind Code in New York, Zhu Dake, Don J. Cohn, Jane Macartney of Reuters, Hannah Fink of
Art and AsiaPacific,
Michael Dutton, Li Kaining, Rebecca Cox, Jean-Philippe Béja of Centre d'Études et d'Information sur la Chine, Liu Qingfeng of
21st Century,
Lionel Bawden, Jon Lee, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Andrew Morris, and Scott Savitt of
Beijing Scene
have all helped me in various ways in my pursuit of the Chairman's shade. Special thanks also go to Fusako McCormack for her assistance with the translation of Zhang Chengzhi's article from Japanese and to Linda Jaivin for her comments on the first draft of the introductory essay.
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I am also grateful to Doug Merwin of M.E. Sharpe, who responded enthusiastically to my suggestion that I expand the material I prepared for
Chinese Sociology and Anthropology
into this book, and to Dorothy Lin, my editor at M.E. Sharpe.
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