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With 'Taipei Story', Chinese diaspora gains its book of food and mourning
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Learning a new language can be a humbling experience, as Chinese-American writer R. F. Kuang argues in "Taipei Story". In the work, university student Lily Chen spends ten weeks in the capital of Taiwan on an exchange program to dedicate herself to the study of Chinese. Read more (11/14/20
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