Our mistake about Macau is more embarrassing because we have an old colleague and friend, anthropologist Paul Hockings, is the dean of a university in Zhuhai, near Macau. Paul was a member of the editorial board for our Encyclopedia of Modern Asia and also edited a volume of the Encyclopedia of World Culture, David Levinson’s first big reference project undertaken when he was still at the Human Relations Area Files at Yale. Paul Hockings is, we suspect, the first non-Chinese dean of a Chinese university in many decades.

We’re more and more aware than even those of us who spend much time working on Chinese topics are not as alert as we need to be. This is another reason Guanxi: The China Letter is needed, and to help ensure that there are fewer errors (though we certainly won’t be able to avoid all of them), we have begun appointing a board of Chinese reviewers, in China, to review issues before we go to press. The first of them is YU Anhuai, or Frank Yu, who used to be an anesthesiologist and is now a journalist for the China Medical Tribune, the most important medical newspaper in China, read by more than half China’s medical professionals.