I'm currently researching Twain's writings concerning China and Chinese immigrants, and will soon begin teaching a seminar covering selected works on the topic here at Yantai University in Shandong Province. I've found the Elmira 2005 conference sched listing the "Mark Twain and China" panel and I wonder if anyone might care to reflect on the scope and content of those presentations and/or any recent or ongoing scholarship of note on the subject. Additionally, I've had no luck tracking down a copy of the essay "The Case of Rev. Dr. Ament, Missionary" and would appreciate a posting or word of a web location for it. Randy Abel