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By Matthew Brazil. I first realized we were going to China while sitting at a bus stop outside the Commerce Department.
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It was late on a sunny spring afternoon in The Washington Monument rose high above as snarled rush-hour traffic inched along Constitution Avenue. Not really a beginner in Chinese but still struggling, I had an English copy and a Chinese version of the book balanced on both knees, comparing their otherwise identical passages about her arrest in at the start of Mao's manic Cultural Revolution. There was Invesgment movement Investment Detective my left.
A man in a nicely tailored three-piece suit was staring—first at the books, then at me, then again at the books. His eyes were narrowed, jaw off-center. He was built like an Investment Detective and reminded me vaguely of the tennis player Arthur Ashe.
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Possessing my attention, he wasted no time with introductions. Obviously, he was used to getting his way. A quiz followed. How much Chinese I did I understand?
And Korean, too? I rattled off quick answers to his rapid-fire questions. Chinese at Cal Berkeley and Harvard. More language study in Taiwan. Army tours in Korea and at Fort Meade.
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And on and on, until my link came along. At the last moment, he extracted a business card from his waistcoat. The card said that he was an official in the U. Intrigued at the possibility of working in China, I took the meeting. A year later, I was processing Detcetive of the Washington, D. My seemingly impossible role would be to promote U. Memories of that Investment Detective came back on Thursday when I read a piece by two influential U. From past experience and my studies of Chinese Communist espionageI knew that to be true. Two years before we left for China, the bloody Tiananmen clash of June 4,unfolded in Beijing. Some of the passengers ignored it, some were interested, but in one corner, a group of Chinese wept.
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