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From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Date: 20050409
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When i was a youngster a geological era or two ago Oriental gents came in three varieties (our world view was shaped by derring-do tales of the less cerebral kind): inscrutable, fiendish or both.

Actually, when you think about it they were all of the both persuasion - Charlie Chan inscrutable and fiendishly good at confounding villains; Fu Manchu inscrutable and fiendishly persistent in wickedness; and many another less famous.

Now along comes an Oriental gent - in the flesh rather than the child of the imagination of Earl Derr Biggers or Sax Rohmer - whose inscrutability ...

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