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Another expert, Sandra Heep, who heads the China Center at the City University of Applied Sciences in Bremen, generally supports the kind of exchange that comes with city partnerships, but warns that in the case of China strict guardrails are required.

If the German impetus for the partnership comes at the city level, it is likely to be controlled at — or at least approved by — a much higher level on the Chinese side, Professor Heep said.

There’s no denying the pleasure of seeing Dickens’s Peggottys transformed into the kindly Peggots, or his oily villain Uriah Heep recast as a sniveling assistant football coach named U-Haul Pyles.

Ken Hensley, best known as the keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter for the British hard rock band Uriah Heep, died on Wednesday at age 75.

However, the relationships formed there eventually led to the formation of Uriah Heep in the 1970s.