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...moment informed by the prejudices born of America's recent "stewardship" of South Korea, they come together in a Tennessee college town: Katherine, a fallen Southern belle, and Chang, a visiting Korean student. Initially, their interwoven stories seem as uncomfortably mismatched as they themselves are. Chang's vivid memories of the Korean War, peppered with brutality and salted with bitterness toward his countrymen and his American mentors, block his ability to envision a future. Katherine too suffers from jolting betrayals that have left her alienated from family and home. But in and through each other, they discover a capacity...
...wonderful example. She does not sleep with male co-workers, and she succeeds in a male-dominated profession not because she is a flirt but because she is intelligent, qualified and determined. She is everything I aspire to, both as a woman and as a person. CHRISTINE CHANG Calgary, Alta...
...there are various ways to define independence. Taiwan and its governing Nationalist Party say they accept the principle of one China, but they also argue that China contains two governments and theirs has as much legitimacy as the one in Beijing. "No party governs all of China," says Chang King-yuh, chairman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council. "China since 1949 has been divided into two political entities. The Republic of China was the first. We have never lost our sovereignty...
...someday when the mainland is democratic and prosperous, Taiwan has no intention of ever going back to being one province in a China ruled from Beijing. Taipei is not impressed with Jiang's offer of a special status like that of Hong Kong. "It will never happen," says John Chang, secretary-general of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang. "We are not Hong Kong, a British colony that could not choose its future. This is a Chinese government...
Tcherepnin's students included a number of prominent musicians including cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 and violinist Lynn Chang...