Acknowledgments GERALD E.BUNKER's original reading of Hart's journals onto tape made him almost a fourth member of our editorial team.Gordon Wheeler of the Queen's University Library in Belfast has been unfail- ingly helpful.Professor Kwang-Ching Liu of the University of Cali- fornia at Davis has helped us especially with the probable meaning of some of Hart's renditions of Chinese phrases in his own pre-Wade romanization.We thank Vice Chancellor Wang Gungwu and Eliza- beth Sinn of the University of Hong Kong for the letters in Appendix C.We are indebted to Mei Ching of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and to Timothy E.Connor of the Chinese- Japanese Library for bibliographical assistance,to Joan Hill for unre- mitting editorial assistance,to Nancy Deptula for fiscal help beyond the call of duty,and to Florence Trefethen for superb editorial man- agement of production at Harvard.For financial help in various forms we thank the Harvard Council on East Asian Studies,the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies,the American Philosophical Society,and the Harvard University Press. RJS JKF KFB 女