Two years in the melting pot /
Although set in the early 1980s, when Liu came to the US to study, his experiences as a stranger in a strange land have a universal and timeless relevance. In Chicago on a scholarship to study English, Liu Zongren finds his task involves much more than classrooms, books, and courses. Here he recount...
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1984.
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