The middle-aged Chinese woman who answers the door apologizes for the wait as she stands in the entryway, sporting leopard-print slippers (...) she is anything but ordinary: She and her siblings are the closest thing China has to aristocracy. Their father fought together with Mao Zedong in the Chinese revolution and was a top official until he fell from favor in 1968.
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