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translation blunders. Martin Heijdra has patiently fielded my bibliographic queries over the years. Finally, I owe a great debt to Professor Fuma Susumu for his limitless generosity during my time at Kyoto University (1992–93, 1999–2000, 2003–4) in providing guidance with sources, reading drafts, and giving me the opportunity to present early versions of this work. Research takes time and travel, which requires financial support. I am deeply grateful to the Research Council of Colgate University for making possible Korean-language study and two trips to Seoul. Generous fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities provided essential support for research stints at Kyoto University and CASS. The tenure of the former forced me to fundamentally recast my project, and the tenure of the latter permitted me to complete the bulk of my research. This book would have been impossible without their support. I have presented portions of this work at several conferences and seminars, including the Fritz Mote Memorial Conference (Princeton University), the Ming Taizu and His Age Conference (Chinese University of Hong Kong), the International Order in East Asia and Exchange, Third International Symposium (Kyoto University), and the Chinese Humanities Seminar (Harvard University). I owe a debt of gratitude to those who offered criticisms, suggestions, and encouragement. Professors Thomas Allsen, Elizabeth Endicott-West, William Atwell, and John Duncan offered insightful comments on early versions of this book and saved me from many embarrassing mistakes. Two anonymous readers for the press provided me with a wealth of invaluable suggestions and corrected many problems of romanization in Korean and Mongolian. I am also indebted to students of my Mongol Empire and Late Imperial China courses at Colgate University, who good-naturedly suffered various iterations of the manuscript. D.M.R.
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