Acknowledgements IN THE course of my research,I have been helped by a large number of people and institutions.First,I wish to thank Griffith University Research Grant Committee for supporting my field work in Taiwan in 1984 and in England in 1988.My thanks also go to the staff of the following archives and institutions:the Public Record Office,London; the House of Lords Record Office;the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies;the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science;the Senate Library of the University of London; the British Library;the University Library,Cambridge;the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies,St Antony's College,Oxford;Rhodes House Library,Oxford;the Library of Birmingham University;the City Library of Manchester;the Library of Columbia University;the Kuomintang Archives;the Chinese National History Institute,Taipei; the Library of the Institute of Modern History,Academia Sinica;and the Library of the University of Hong Kong.In Australia I have been assisted by the staff of the Menzies Library at the Australian National University,the Commonwealth Library of Australia in Canberra,and Griffith University Library. During my field work in Taipei in 1984 I was attached to the Institute of Modern History,Academia Sinica.Professors Lu Shiqiang,Zhang Pengyuan,and Zhang Yufa extended me their hospitality and gave generously of their time.I was privileged to have benefited from their admirable scholarship. In 1986 I was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science,for the Lent Term, during which time I was able to do a good deal of archival research. I wish especially to thank Professor Ian H.Nish,whose encouragement and advice on aspects of my research were particularly helpful. I am also grateful to Mr R.A.Bickers,who is researching British perceptions of China and the Chinese during the period 1928-31,for showing me the extensive notes he took from the Lampson Diaries, which were in the possession of Mr David Steeds of the University College of Wales,Aberystwyth,before being transferred to St Antony's College,Oxford. An earlier draft of the manuscript was read by Professor Ian Nish, Professor Ann Trotter,and my Griffith colleague,Professor Colin