Isabel Crook, Canadian anthropologist awarded friendship medal by China’s Xi Jinping, dies aged 107

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Open this photo in gallery: Canadian anthropologist and educator Isabel Crook receives an award from China's President Xi Jinping during a ceremony at Beijing's Great Hall of the People in 2019.GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images Canadian educator and anthropologist Isabel Crook, a committed Communist who witnessed the founding of the People’s Republic of China, has died, according to Chinese state media. She was 107. Ms. Crook, who said seeing Mao Zedong’s troops enter Beijing in 1949 was “the most joyful event I think I’ve ever watched,” experienced both the highs and lows of the “New China.” During the Cultural Revolution, she and...