It is a great honor for me to write a preface for the new, PFS (China Society for People’s Friendship Studies) 50-book series under the general title of Light on China. All these books were written in English by journalistic and other eyewitnesses of the events described. I have read many of them over the seven decades since my student days at Yenching University. With some of the outstanding authors in this series I have ties of personal friendship,mutual regard, and warm memories dating from before the Chinese people’s Liberation in 1949.

The China Society for People’s Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press (FLP) in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People’s Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events described. Most of these books have long been out of print, but are now being brought back to life for the benefit of readers in China and abroad.

I  Growing Up in Brooklyn, the Scholar 1915-1938

II  Lawyer, Soldier, and the Trip to China 1939-1947

III Phoenix, Marriage, and the Decision to Stay

 1947-1949

IV New Beginnings Early 1950s

V  Settling In, The Mid- 1950s

VI Northwest Interlude 1957

VII The Big Leap Forward and the Communes

 1957-1958

VIII Integration Accomplished: An American-Chinese

 1959-1963

IX The "Cultural Revolution" 1966-1976

X  Turning Point 1977-1980

XI Beijing Bagels and Chinese Jews 1981-1984

XII "You Don’t Look Very Chinese" 1985-1988

XHI Israel, Tiananmen, and Chinese Law 1989-1990

XIV Media Encounters and Treks to the Interior

 1991-1994

XV Summing Up Half a Cenmry 1996