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"As an interpreter in the British consulate and then Inspector-General of Foreign Customs in China in the mid-19th century, Robert Hart trod many paths. The son of a Wesleyan pastor, he \"drifted off the path of righteousness into the arms of booze and babes &amp;mdash; my words, not his,\" says Lloyd Lofthouse, who will discuss My Splendid Concubine, a work of historical fiction featuring Hart, at Bay Books (1669 Willow Pass Rd., Concord) on Thursday, May 22."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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