The Land Where It’s Already Tomorrow, Chapter 26: A “lottery” is a Voluntary Tax on People who Aren’t Very Good at Math, Getting Pampered, an Aboriginal Feast, Lao-puo’s New Submarine, Santa’s Trouser Tent
January 4th 2007 Life goes placidly on, in sleepy little Guangfu. The big excitement is that the national lottery is now gigantic, and there are lineups to buy tickets. The fact that nobody has won it, week in and week out, does not seem to affect the optimism of the would-be millionaires.
I had a close call in the supermarket this evening. While I was doing the shopping (Lao-puo was at home studying), I enc
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In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using th... ... read more 
