Add to ORKGThis project would have been impossible without the influence and inspiration of numerous people spanning three continents. Much thanks to the Davenport Committee for giving me a grant to go to Beijing to do research. Innumerable thanks to Professor Vera Schwarcz for teaching me how I could actually do research in China (even when I came to her completely unprepared) and for her continued guidance and wisdom. I cannot say enough about how much I admire your scholarship. I can only aspire to address this topic in any way as well as you already have. Thanks to everyone who helped me do research in Beijing, especially Xie Mingguang and Zhang Zeyi. My research would have been impossible without either of you. Your intellectual openness and hone...