Acknowledgments
There are many people to thank for their support of my efforts to bring Betting on China to fruition. Sufficiently acknowledging all of them is not feasible, so I hope that all those who have been of help in so many different ways will not mind indulging me to limit recognition here to those who played the most direct roles in the book’s realization.
First, I equally acknowledge (in alphabetical order) Ian Lewis, partner at Mayer Brown JSM in Beijing, and Jerry Wu, the founder and CEO of Draco Natural Products, a San Jose, California–headquartered, Shanghai-based manufacturer of pharmaceutical-grade herbal ingredients. Both Ian and Jerry were instrumental in providing deeply appreciated logistical support for the research and writing of the book. Ian also provided extremely useful comments on the manuscript. Additional facilitation of the research effort was provided by David Kuo, principal at Los Angeles, California–based boutique investment bank NewCap Partners, whose international focus is on the Greater China region.
I am especially grateful to Nick Melchior, senior publishing editor at Wiley, for taking an interest in the book and accepting—in ways that I know repeatedly tried his patience—my frequent changes with content and scheduling. Emilie Herman, senior editorial manager, and Judy Howarth, senior development editor, were instrumental in the formulation of the final product, as was Stefan Skeen, senior production editor.
The unflappable James Barth, senior ...
