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In the fall of 1980, sinologist Wei Peh T’i revisited her hometowns in China, Nanjing and Chongqing, for the first time since she left for New York in 1947, at age sixteen. Wei was part of a luxury cruise for “foreigners,” but with unfading knowledge of local dialects, she managed to visit the people on the name list that her parents had prepared for her homecoming. A curious gaze of the “natives” trailed Wei along the way, however, and an old Chinese poem came to her mind:
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