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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...
...Chang described the hardships her mother faced with one arm leaning on a plush red Loker couch...
...Chang described the life her mother faced in mainland China before she fled...
...Inflation swept the nation and destroyed fortunes in single strokes," Chang said. She said a bottle of Coca-Cola cost $83 in Shanghai in 1947 and her mother paid her school tuition in rice...
...People carted their money around in wheelbarrows just to do morning shopping," Chang said...