Word: changs
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...People carted their money around in wheelbarrows just to do morning shopping," Chang said...
...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...
...Chang's mother did just that, choosing to attend a college in Virginia. Chang's grandmother was dead and her family's former concubine--who had served as a friendly aunt-- married and moved away. And her relatives wanted the family to leave...
...leaving Taiwan meant leaving schoolmates and friends behind. Chang said most of her mother's classmates eventually came...