Acknowledgements

With gratitude to:

Irv Schwartz, my childhood friend, whose encouragement from afar, after changing careers himself, was catalytic to this endeavor.

Mike Collins, a youthful Princetonian in China who took me under his wing.

Chip Rountree, photographer of a recalcitrant thirteen-year-old, who is responsible for this book being judged by its cover.

Angie Baecker, who understands that it is not the devil which is in the detail, but the very substance itself.