The White Mountain (49 page)

AUTHOR'S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T
he translation of Li Ho's ‘On The Frontier' is by A. C. Graham from his excellent
Poems Of The Late T'ang
, published by Penguin Books, London, 1965, and used with their kind permission.

The translation of Li Shangyin's ‘Fallen Flowers' is by Tao Jie and is taken from
300 T'ang Poems, A New Translation
, Commercial Press, Hong Kong. The passage from
On Protracted War
is from Mao Tse-tung's
Selected Works
, II, Peking Press.

The passages quoted from Book One [XI] and [XXXVII] of Lao Tzu's
Tao Te Ching
are from the D. C. Lau translation, published by Penguin Books, London, 1963, and used with their kind permission. The quotation from Confucius'
The Analects
[Book XII] is once again from a D. C. Lau translation, published by Penguin Books, 1979, and used with their permission.

The passage from Sun Tzu's classic
The Art of War
is from the Samuel B. Griffith translation, published by Oxford University Press, 1963.

Thanks must go to the following for their help. To my editors – Nick Sayers, Brian DeFiore, John Pearce and Alyssa Diamond – for their sheer niceness and (of course) for their continuing enthusiasm, and to Carolyn Caughey, fan turned editor, for seeing where to cut the cake.

To Mike Cobley, thanks not merely for the encouragement but for Advanced Cheerfulness in the face of Adversity. May both your patience and your talent be rewarded. And to Andy Sawyer, for a thoughtful reading of the text. I hope I can reciprocate one of these days.

To my first-line critic and safety-net, the stalwart Brian Griffin, may I say yet again how much it's all appreciated. The notes you've done will make a fine book one day!

To family and friends – particularly to my girls, Susan, Jessica, Amy, Georgia and Francesca – go the usual thanks in the face of my at times monomaniacal neglect. And especial thanks to everyone I've met on my travels – in Leeds, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton, Brighton, Canterbury, Dublin and Glasgow. To all…
Slainte Mhath
!

David Wingrove

Spring 1991, Autumn 2013