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Palmer Reports Sanctioned Visits and China Dining Customs
A. H. Palmer recounts a two hour banquet in China with seven to eight courses including Peking duck, noting private rooms for foreigners and absence of tips. He describes budget meals, sight seeing, commune life, hand labor in construction and irrigation, rationed clothing, and UOP talks of expanding trade with China while American business presence remains limited.
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Palmer
China
Peking
Canton
Nixon
Ming Dynasty Tombs
Great Wall
Summer Palace
Forbidden City