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GONGO.”
    â€œ Nainai GONGO? Okay . . . I’m not following exactly.”
    â€œ Nainai is ‘grandmother.’ You need a GONGO to look after you, like a nainai .”
    â€œ Nainai GONGO. Got it.”
    â€œAnyhow, not to worry.”
    Herb said that Madame Miao was tough and political, but she was honest. A perfect nainai . We should be okay. And even though he had no authority whatsoever, I will be forever grateful to Herb for giving me my first yes. It felt like permission.
    Herb was a man of his word. I soon received a letter from Beijing.
    Dear Jenny Bowen:
    It is our great pleasure to know your Foundation through our dear friends at Public Media Center. CPWF is a nonprofit NGO, to assist people, especially women, in their economical life, health, and social activities. Improving the conditions of the orphanages has been our concern in the past. Besides, we are in direct link with the government ministry—the State Family Planning Commission. In a word, as a Chinese NGO, we are greatly interested in a joint effort with your foundation to reach our common goal.
    Truly yours,
    Miao Xia, Secretary General
    China Population
    Welfare Foundation
    Yes! We had a Chinese partner—a nainai !—nothing could stop us now! I faxed back at once with a copy of our proposal. I asked when we could meet in Beijing.
    A week passed with no word. Hmm. I refaxed the letter and proposal. Bingo!
    Dear Jenny Bowen,
    We are happy that you have received our letter. At the time when we are looking forward to your reply we noticed unfortunately on our side the fax paper had been running out. We hope you will try it again and by that time the paper should be in position. Thank you for your attention and we are waiting to read your fax.
    With good wishes,
    Mrs. Zhang Zhirong,
    Assistant to Mme. Miao
    Three’s a charm. My message was received and the assistant, Mrs. Zhang—who I now realized was the English voice of Madame Miao—sent a lovely note confirming that we were to be partners, and that there would be certain financial requirements on our side, and throwing in a little pitch for herself:
    So far at this stage, I would be happy to appoint Mrs. Zhang Zhirong to be the contact person for this project. Mrs. Zhang graduated from University of Michigan, an MA in sociology, she has long years’ experience in conducting and managing international aid programs. I am sure she will be a good helping hand in implementation of your program in China.
    She’d written her own letter of recommendation! And I would soon learn that she had not oversold herself one bit. For now, I wrote back that it sounded like a great idea and I’d be in touch as soon as we heard from my friend Norman Niu.
    Then NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. The U.S. government said it had been a mistake.
    BEIJING ( NEW YORK TIMES ), SETH FAISON —A powerful surge of anti-American sentiment was unleashed after last week’s bombing of China’s Embassy in Belgrade, sending rocks, bottles and slogans at the American Embassy here. The protests grew to become the largest anti-foreign demonstrations since the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. . . .
    â€œWe are a very old and traditional nation,” said Wang Yizheng, a government employee. “If you do not show us respect, we will hate you.”
    I wrote to my new friends at CPWF:
    I’m writing to convey my sincere condolences and my outrage at the recent bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. I am deeply sad and angry that the NATO countries have made such a terrible, tragic, and unspeakable mistake.
    I am worried and frightened about how this will be played out. I feel that now, more than ever, it is important to keep our lines of communication open. I wanted to share these feelings with my friends in China.
    Sincerely,
    Jenny Bowen
    I received an immediate reply:
    Dear Jenny,
    Your fax of condolences has been received. It’s been