The Land Where It’s Already Tomorrow, Chapter 30: Harmony, Hit my Knee, Meg the Miracle Worker, Weather is Here Wish You Were Beautiful, If the Colonel Could Make Chicken that Good, He Would Have Made General
February 6th 2007 When we lived on Xin Hai Lu in Taipei during our first year away, there used to be a handyman in a little truck coming around to do glass repairs. I remember having taken pity on him for what was obviously a meager income, and having been tempted to pay the local hooligans (if any) to drum up some business for him by smashing a window here and there. I’m digressing, already.
Anyway, the guy ha
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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 
