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Emily Post – A China Best-seller

Posted: July 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

This small article tells us two marginally interesting things – 1) Emily Post’s famous book of manners, “Etiquette” was used by American diplomats in China before the war to settle the myriad of tricky issues they had to deal with and 2) it was a best seller in China….

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