The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, Revised and Expanded Edition

Acknowledgments

This book benefited greatly from numerous discussions with the many Chinese students in my business school classes at the University of California-Irvine. These students hailed from both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). Despite cultural barriers, many were willing to express and share their views candidly in both a classroom setting and private conversations.

I also must offer my sincerest thanks and gratitude to Dr. Cynthia J. Smith, a lecturer in business and anthropology at Ohio State University, and author Russ Hall. Together with my editor Jim Boyd, they all dutifully read numerous drafts of the manuscript and provided constructive editorial and analytical remarks. Of course, any errors ...