March 28, 2023

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China: Irreverent eye

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The wife of a veteran British diplomat combines antic sketches of dogs with sayings fromConfucius and Lao Tzu in her latest book. Mike Peters reports in the China Daily

Her husband is a longtime British diplomat in Her Majesty’s Foreign Service. She’s in her mid-50s with a passport that sings of embassy postings, starting with China in the early 1980s. If the picture in your mind is a stodgy matron with a stiff upper lip, you haven’t met Cherry Denman.

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