Dear Rebecca,<br /><br />You may remember the work you did a few months back on my monograph on religion in Manchuria. That book has now been accepted to Cambridge University Press, and I would like to include you in the acknowledgements.<br /><br />The paper I am sending now is an introduction to a book on empire in Asia. It is meant to draw readers in and frame the individual chapters (basically one chapter per empire), but I would also like it to work as a standalone piece. The writing is a bit wordy - if you see something that does not fit or repeats, it probably deserves to be cut.<br /><br />The footnotes that are initials refer to chapter titles - I am awaiting advice on how the book editors want to handle those.  <br /><br />With thanks as always,<br /><br />Thomas