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EPILOGUE Gone but Not Forgotten After the 1949 rev01ution, Carl Crow was forgotten in China ... almost. In 1974 Dennis George Crow, the grandson of Carl's younger brother Les1ie Ray and the son of Carl's favorite nephew George, who had run the passenger division of the Dollar Line in Shanghai and Hong Kong for many years, visited Beijing with his mother 01ga. Visas were hard to come by in the 1ast tumu1tuous years of the Cu1tural Rev01ution, especially for American citizens like Dennis and Olga. When Americans did manage to make it to China, their 仕ip was high1y orchestrated and planned and their movements heavily co帥olled and monitored. The Crows stayed at the prestigious Peking Hotel and toured the capita1. One day they were informed that they would be allowed to visit the famous 扭扭id巳 resort of Beidaih巳. This was a rar巳 privilege at th巳 time and they w巳re among the first foreigners to see the resort since 1949. The next moming a limousine arrived to take them to Beidaihe along with a group of high-profile visitors that total巳d nine people. The Crows had to wond巳r why there was such luxurious treatment for two Americans with little more to r巳commendth巳mthan a curiosity about China and a t巳nuous connection to the coun旬's now politically mcorrect past. At Beidaih巳 the curious group of foreigners were shown around and then interviewed by an eld巳rly man worki月 as a journalist for the Chinese propaganda magazine China Reconstructs. Olga was asked by the joumalist in excellent English how she liked Beidaihe and what she thought of China - of cours巳 only positively glowing comments would ever see print. The joumalist asked for her name for th巳 r巳cord. After the interview the old man lingered around and 巳ventually asked Olga if by any chance she was related to the great Carl Crow who had once lived in Shanghai? She said she was. The old man became very 巳xcited. How wonderful, he exclaim巳d; as a young man his first job in Shanghai had been as Carl Crow's copyboy and he remembered Carl with much affection. Whatever had become of his old boss? Carl's infamous network of 企len血， acquaintances, colleagues and associates stretch巳d further and lasted longer than he could have ever known. ...

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