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I WOULD LIKE TO THANK Mary Kennedy for allowing me to use her version of Hung Tu’s works, copyright to which she retains. My apologies must go to Chinese scholars everywhere, for whom this image of their country in the ninth century may be an obvious never-never land. Yet Donn Byrne wrote his Marco Polo in pure Irish brogue, and if Marianne Moore’s imaginary garden has a real toad in it, so this imaginary China has a real poet in it. If Go Ask the River helps to bring her work to a wider public, I hope both she and the scholars will forgive me for my errors and blunders. I do not remember the ninth century as well as I once thought I did, when I was in Cheng-tu.

—EVELYN EATON

March 1968

THE PUBLISHER gratefully acknowledges Chungliang Al Huang for bringing this important work to our attention for re-issue and Marte Brengle for her invaluable assistance in bringing this novel to life once again.