She tracked Cheng down, then flew with a friend to Washington to see her. “She endured so much and she fought for what she believed, and she told a story, she told a wonderful story, and she told us what was going on in the Mao Zedong days,” Clark told me. That’s because people keep finding it, just as Toni Clark, a 71-year-old retired receptionist, did at a library book sale in Schaumburg, Ill., in 2004. “If you are in a hurry, you are a loser.” “I usually tell them, ‘Don’t send your number one on the first contact,’” she said, explaining that it’s best not to seem overeager. She traveled to the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong, giving business leaders tips on deciphering Chinese bureaucracy, etiquette and power plays. Her history as an executive at the Shanghai office of the oil giant Shell, a job that had tarred her in China as a capitalist sympathizer and foreign spy, made her an attractive speaker for corporate clients.
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