China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank: our editors at Wiley, Shannon Vargo, Elizabeth Gildea, and Deborah Schindlar, for believing in us and giving us the chance to tell this timely and important story. Josh Berkman, whose developmental editing and organizational brilliance gave this book shape and form. Janet Carmosky for her mentorship and encyclopedic knowledge of all things China. Richard Berman, of Verb Factory, an outstanding writer and communications pro, for freely giving of himself and his expertise. Jim Tompkins and my colleagues at Tompkins International for believing in and supporting me. Steve Ganster, Steve Crandall, and the staff at Technomic Asia. Everyone at the Confucius Institute for Business at SUNY in New York. The good people at The China Institute. My fellow Board members and everyone at the Asian Financial Society. All of the great writers and authors whose coverage and interpretation of China over the last 15 years provided me with an education on China and big shoulders to stand on, including but certainly not limited to: Jim Fallows, Yu Hua, Peter Hessler, Evan Osnos, Gady Epstein, Adam Minter, Helen Wang, Louisa Lim, Paul French, Simon Winchester, Orville Schell, Matt Schiavenza, James McGregor, Laurie Burkitt, David Barbosa, Tim Clissold, and many others. To the men and women who have supported my career and shaped my education in Chinese business, culture, history, language, and mind-set: Winston Ma, I. Peter Wolfe, Bob Shapiro, Dan Harris, Esmond ...