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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I am indebted to Rebecca Carter, Lynn Nesbit, and Nan A. Talese.

  My dutiful thanks for the coverage of China during my year living there by The Economist, the Financial Times, and The New York Times. Less factual but nonetheless insightful was China Daily.

  My gratitude goes as well to the Athenaeum Club library in London and to the Society Library in New York.

  My thanks are also due to friends and colleagues who have been generous with their expertise, time, and encouragement. In China, to Angela Chen, Jaime A. FlorCruz, Gilliam Collinsworth Hamilton, Jackie Huang, Heidi Park, Li Qin, and Sheri Yan; in London, to Matthew Evans, Susannah Fiennes, Victoria Greenwood, Mathias Hink, Michael Immordino, Tessa Keswick, Caryn Mandabach, Andrew Nurnberg, Deborah Owen, Kevin Pakenham, Ed Victor, and Xue Xinran; in New York, to Blythe Danner, Annabel Davis-Goff, John Fulvio, Cecilia Mendez Hodes, Gilbert C. Maurer, Kim McCarty, Michael McCarty, Frances Mitchell, Priscilla Morgan, and Pascal Volle.

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Eden Collinsworth is a former media executive and business consultant. She was the president and publisher of Arbor House Book Publishing Company in the 1980s. In 1990, she launched the Los Angeles–based monthly lifestyle magazine Buzz, after which she became vice president and director of cross-media business development at the Hearst Corporation. In 2008, she became vice president and chief of staff of an international think tank. In 2011, she launched Collinsworth & Associates, a consulting company, which specializes in intercultural communication. Her Chinese-language book The Tao of Improving Your Likability: A Personal Guide to Effective Business Etiquette in Today’s Global World became a bestseller in mainland China.