#4 When We Think About Distant Cities
My experience of Taipei still feels like that of a tourist even as I return again and again to familiar places with the eye of a local.
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#2 Imagining Taipei
On my first day back in Taiwan, just hours after stepping off my flight, I made my way to Eslite Bookstore uptown. I wasn't planning on buying anything, but bookstores have a strange way of enacting a magnetic pull on my bank account. I pondered whether to buy
#1 We're All From Somewhere
This newsletter will hopefully be many things—a diary of my time in Taiwan, a place for musings about Taiwan’s politics and culture, and a record of the amazing and often amazingly difficult experience of learning Chinese.