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and Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney, and a fellowship at the Department of Film at Kings College London have been invaluable. The ongoing work of colleagues in Australia and overseas: Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, Ying Zhu, David SG Goodman, Harriet Evans, Michael Keane, Luigi Tomba, David Kelly, Louise Edwards, Elaine Jeffreys, is always inspirational. We also thank the Australian Research Council for its support for the Middle Class Taste project (with Zheng Yi), which has informed the arguments of this book. We are grateful to Marc Blecher, Cynthia Enloe and Professor Hua Qingzhao, who engaged us about particular approaches taken in the atlas. The resulting interpretations are those of the authors. Sarah Cook, Rosemary Foot, Jude Howell, Jie Dao, Leicia Petersen, Peng Zou, Tina Schilbach, Ming Liang, Norman Stockman, Paul Wingrove and the truly wonderful Philippa Kelly, have made important contributions to the atlas and provided much-needed advice and encouragement for the whole project, while the University of Sussex was more than generous with the provision of facilities. We are pleased to have been able to select photographs for pages 24, 34, 62, 74 and 88 from Beijing-based photographer Ben McMillan. In addition, we are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce their photographs: 12 and 20 Christopher Herwig; 22 (top) John Sigler/iStockphoto; 22 (bottom) Adrian H Hearn; 23 (top) Adrian Beesley/iStockphoto; 22 (bottom) Anthony Brown/iStockphoto; 22 (right) Matthew Spriggs; 52 Mark Henley / Panos Pictures; 104 DSG Goodman. This atlas is a collective project, and our co-workers at Myriad Editions, Candida Lacey, Corinne Pearlman, Isabelle Lewis and, most of all, Jannet King deserve to have their names on the cover and title page with us. We thank them with great affection. Memories of Anne Benewick (1937–1998), the co-founder of Myriad, inspired us. China held a special place among the Myriad Atlases, for China was special for Anne. When in Beijing she played a mean game of table tennis, to the surprise and delight of her opponents and on-lookers. At the People’s University she made jiaozis with faculty and students, cycled on her second-hand Flying Pigeon and searched relentlessly for the perfect peony. Robert Benewick Brighton, UK

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Sydney, Australia and London, UK

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