We found out later that Arthur McKechnie mostly just got dressed up in his odd clothes and sat alone in a Chinese restaurant with a half bottle of white wine and a plate of crispy fried duck.

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The market promises to be huge: The average person in China drinks less than half a bottle each year, according to Chinese government statistics.

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And finally they ignored the elementary rule that children rarely choose their parents' drinks, which meant that the young Chinese, often educated in America, took to wine or beer, disdaining the bottle of cognac which had formed the centrepiece of their parents' dining tables.

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