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<<An update on Erita, my Royal Coconut of the Great Valley achamchen.com . She will, one way or another, grace us with her visit in 12 days’ time, if not earlier.
We have just decided on Erita’s Chinese name, Ai Li, sounding like with Eri, pronounced Ai-Lley, or Alley. The name is a play on a family friend’s name, Rewi Alley, you know, the internationalist, optimist, and the man who introduced the Gung-Ho concept to the world. The Chinese characters we have chosen (Ai Li), means Forever Dawn.
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Rewi Alley
GUNG HO
Rewi Alley, social reformer, educator, fireman, writer, poet, translator, great internationalist, industrialist, revered citizen, potter, soldier, a hero and a friend of China. Edgar Snow, the famous American journalist: "Rewi Alley is unique because he has achieved greatness in a country where few foreigners ever manage to achieve an authentic ripple." The most travelled European in the Chinese interior and its ‘white veteran’, associate of Mao and Che Guevara. Author of 66 books, always with the aim of bringing about a greater understanding of his second homeland and its people. The man who introduced ‘Gung Ho’ into the Western idiom.
So, Erita, the Royal Coconut of the Great Valley, Forever Dawn, will be. Life is ready to progress one more step. The teddy bears are standing guard, waiting for their mistress to give them life.
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