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...book reading last night at Loker Commons, Chang read passages about her mother's life from her first book, Beyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women From the Middle Kingdom to Middle America. The book chronicles her mother's journey from China to Taiwan in the late 1940s and finally to the United States...
...title symbol of Chang's memoir, however, is that of the 'narrow gate' which marked the entrance to her mother's high school, the First Girls School, or Bei-yi-nu, in Taiwan...
...Chang's mother was the guardian for her three younger siblings at home. When she entered the narrow gate, however, she felt "relieved" and not "restless" like most schoolgirls, Chang said...
...Gaining admittance to the school represented another sort of gate, she said...
...soon as they arrived, the narrow gate would clang shut behind them," she said. "No guidepost remained to guide them...