With Winona and Jin-tran

Lives in the Lotus Blossom, Chapter 10: Chen Jun-bin

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October 3rd 2007
Chen Jun-bin doesn't have an English name. At first this surprised me, because he is a really with-it and cosmopolitan kind of guy. Bin speaks pretty good English--we have great talks as our desks face each other in one of the teachers' workrooms. Some of my humour (word plays and so forth) is hard for him to find amusing, but that is true of a lot of English people too. Bin’s wife Su-ling ... read more

Asia » Taiwan » Hualien

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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