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I would also like to thank Professor Khoo Boo Teik of <strong>The</strong> National Graduate Institute for Policy<br />
Studies, Tokyo, Japan, for k<strong>in</strong>dly read<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> draft of this study, profoundly improv<strong>in</strong>g its English<br />
and advis<strong>in</strong>g about its structure.<br />
He also recommended me to complete this study at <strong>the</strong> Institute of Sou<strong>the</strong><strong>as</strong>t Asian Studies – Yusof<br />
Ishak Institute (ISEAS) of S<strong>in</strong>gapore, which accepted me <strong>as</strong> a Visit<strong>in</strong>g Senior Researcher for three<br />
months, from 26 January till 25 April 2015. At ISEAS, its Director, Mr. Tan Ch<strong>in</strong> Tiong,<br />
occ<strong>as</strong>ionally encouraged me to complete <strong>the</strong> work. I greatly appreciate ISEAS <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g its Library<br />
and all its staff, especially Mr. Tan Ch<strong>in</strong> Tiong and Dr. Lee Hock Guan, for k<strong>in</strong>dly giv<strong>in</strong>g me an<br />
opportunity and place to concentrate myself on completion of this research.<br />
I shared an office-room with an em<strong>in</strong>ent historian, Dr. Leon Comber. He k<strong>in</strong>dly suggested to me<br />
that microfilms of <strong>the</strong> Shanghai Municipal Police Special Branch <strong>Files</strong> (SMPF) were kept <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
Central Library of <strong>the</strong> National University of S<strong>in</strong>gapore (NUS). NUS Library k<strong>in</strong>dly allowed me to<br />
read <strong>the</strong>se microfilms. I am grateful to Dr. Comber, <strong>the</strong> NUS Library and its staff.<br />
At <strong>the</strong> l<strong>as</strong>t stage of writ<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> draft, I <strong>as</strong>ked Ms. Larisa Nikit<strong>in</strong>a, a Ph.D. candidate of University of<br />
Malaya (She took Ph.D. half a year later), to clarify uncerta<strong>in</strong> portions of <strong>the</strong> orig<strong>in</strong>al Russianlanguage<br />
documents and to correct Roman spell<strong>in</strong>g of Ch<strong>in</strong>ese names which were orig<strong>in</strong>ally written<br />
<strong>in</strong> Russian. I am deeply grateful to her.<br />
This study follows <strong>the</strong> cl<strong>as</strong>sification of <strong>the</strong> documents of <strong>the</strong> RSASPH employed by Professor<br />
Kurihara, such <strong>as</strong> Ф. 495 оп.62 д.30.<br />
Notes<br />
1. Its orig<strong>in</strong>al name w<strong>as</strong> <strong>the</strong> Institute of Marxism-Len<strong>in</strong>ism. <strong>The</strong> name w<strong>as</strong> changed to <strong>the</strong><br />
Russian Centre for <strong>the</strong> Preservation and Study of Documents of Modern History <strong>in</strong> 2001.<br />
See Sophie Qu<strong>in</strong>n-Judge, Ho Chi M<strong>in</strong>h: <strong>The</strong> Miss<strong>in</strong>g Years, 1911–1941, S<strong>in</strong>gapore,<br />
Horizon Books, pp. 2, 260, which refers to <strong>the</strong> Archive <strong>as</strong> “RC”.<br />
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