Grace Chen was our guide and facilitator for the Jiangsu group. Grace is a terrific tour guide, possibly because she worked as a tour guide for a Chinese travel agency. She's one of the few Chinese lucky enough to travel to America, and 6 years ago she lead a tour of 17 Chinese people on an extensive tour of the states. It's extremely hard to get a visa to travel to the US, and each traveler must deposit 50,000 yuan, about an average year's salary. Unfortunately, Grace lost that job because on the trip, eight people defected. As she put it, "Every morning I would do a head count, and would be missing another one or two people. They would sneak out in the middle of the night and I had no control over it!" Ah, Grace, she's powerless against the strong pull of freedom. No Americans have defected to China on her watch.
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